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Bangkok & Hua Hin 6D5N

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:53:00 +0000

Hello world~!

Haven't blog for ages but I've decided to write a full blog post on my recent family trip to Bangkok and Hua Hin, just to preserve the memories, and of course, to give some reviews or guides to those who plan to visit Bangkok and Hua Hin.

Before I go in details, do be informed that since this is a family trip with my parents, it's not going to be an itinerary full of shopping malls or markets. Well I guess everyone knows Bangkok is famous for shopping, but my itinerary would be more on sight seeing, just in case anyone out there are not fond of shopping haul then this would be a good guide for you I hope.

So let's begin. My original itinerary was as follow:-

But due to several circumstances, especially the bombing incidents, we'd made some last minute changes to the itinerary. So the revised one would be as follow:-

Day 1 - Arrive Bangkok

Check in Hotel

Day 2 - Bangkok

1. Wat Pho - Temple of Reclining Buddha

2. Chatuchak Weekend Market

3. Terminal 21 Shopping Mall

4. Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant

Day 3 - Hua Hin

5. Wat Bang Kung - Temple in the Tree

6. Phra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park

7. Swiss Sheep Farm

8. Chatsila Night Market

Day 4 - Hua Hin

9. Hua Hin Train Station

10. Wat Huay Mongkol - The Giant Monk

11. Hills Vineyard

12. Mrigadayavan Palace of Love & Hope

13. Wat Khao Takiap

Day 5 - Bangkok

Stay in Hotel

Day 6 - Depart from Bangkok

Back to reality!

I will explain in details on why we change our itinerary last minute as we go on.

Day 1

So our flight to Bangkok - Don Mueang Airport arrived around 6.00m local time. We actually hired a driver throughout our trip because my parents especially my dad feel reluctant to squeeze in the train or charter two separate taxi or tuk-tuk all the time since we travel in a group of 5. So upon our arrival, we were pick up by our driver at the airport and head directly to our hostel. For more info on the driver do find it at the end of the post.

This is our 'hulk' throughout the trip LOL! The driver came with his green Innova and we're like oh okay, we could have easily recognize our car from miles away. Later did we know it's super common to see green taxi all over the town duh!

Our car plate numbers for memories LOL...

After some traffic we finally reached our hostel. Was a bit grumpy at first because the driver didn't search our hotel location before hand and we ended up having to explain to him the location of our hotel. Luckily the bf had already study the map and plot some nearby trademark through his phone, we managed to reach without much hassles.

We stayed in The Blocks Hostel throughout our trip in Bangkok. Despite being just a hostel, the place is super cozy and just a stone throw to BTS. It costs us around RM50 per head per night, how cheap it is! Freak not because the facilities and comfort of stay definitely exceed the value you paid. For normal double and family room they provide king size bed and to my surprise it was so comfortable.

By the way it was already dark when we checked in our rooms so the pictures of the interior were taken the next morning for a better view.

This is the reception area of the hostel. Furnished with a vintage couch for customers prior to check-in.

There's a swirling staircase next to the couch which lead to a loft with computers for those who need to do some surfing on the Internet. How thoughtful. Too bad I didn't have picture of the loft to show as somebody is using the PC and I don't feel good interrupting just to take photo like a typical tourist duh...

Further in from the reception counter is sort of a gathering area with lots of bean bags where you could hang out with your travel mates for some snacks or movie. No more worries on leaving unpleasant smell or leftover food on your bed!

Pantry with hot drinks and chilled beer. Was surprised that hot drinks are free of charge, how nice! I mean like comparing the room's rate that you paid for to the facilities that you get, definitely a great deal!

And this is the walkway that lead to our rooms. The interior is not as fancy as 5 stars hotel but I'm pretty satisfied with everything here. No complains.

We basically just dropped our luggage in our rooms and head out for dinner right away. Another good thing about this hostel is that it's only like 5 mins walk to Terminal 21 Shopping Mall and there are also lots of street food available nearby.

We had street food for our first dinner cause dad got so hungry that we basically just settled at the nearest stall we saw. The food turned out to be quite good though.

Got back our hostel after dinner to get some good rest for our next day activities. But the bf was all noisy like a kid claiming it's far too early for bed so both of us got out again after taking bath.

It was around 11pm when we got out and most of the stalls had closed. I had a sudden crave for coffee (yah I know coffee before bed is like super weird) so we went to a nearby cafe which is also another 5 mins walk from our hostel.

Hollys Coffee is actually a Korean chained cafe, kinda funny that we visited a Korean cafe on our first night in Bangkok, haha! But because the Korean village is just right next to our hostel, pretty much explains the existence of the Korean cafe, so that's why.

The interior is quite cozy but the crowd is seriously no joke. Full house when we were there. We were indeed lucky enough to have found empty seats right for two.

Planned to get bingsu (shaved ice) but the portion seems to be too big to be eaten at this hour. Plus the price is blood sucking expensive so we ended up ordered normal ice blended cafe latte. The price is more or less the same with Starbucks frappuccino FML, I'd definitely go for Starbucks without doubt.

Day 2

The next morning, we had breakfast at a nearby chicken rice stall which is claimed to be famous and recommended by our driver. I think the location is somewhere around the famous Erawan Shrine. I only realized how famous this chicken rice stall is until I came back from the trip. All you need is just to search for Bangkok's Chicken Rice in Google and there gonna be like hundreds of post or reviews wthell...

This is how the stall looks like. It's called Ko Ang Chicken Rice, located in Pratunam area. The place is more well known as "Pink Soldiers Chicken Rice" for its staff are all wearing pink color shirt.

We ordered half chicken and a plate of chicken livers. It costs THB390 in total together with 5 plates of white rice and 5 iced teas.

The taste is not bad, especially the sauce, kinda different from the normal chicken rice in Malaysia. Chicken is soft as well. The only drawbacks is the presentation, lol... But it's just a normal stall, don't expect too much, so this is definitely a must-try!

After breakfast we head to our first destination...

1. Wat Pho - The Reclining Buddha

Entrance fees are THB100 per head. The temple is quite huge overall. The reclining Buddha is in the main hall, there are also a lot of smaller Buddha statues all around the temple.

Some insight of other small temples within Wat Pho.

The are a great numbers of similar Buddha statues within Wat Pho itself.

Saw traditional Thai dance classes going on when we were there. Not sure is it available every day, but the soft music and refined choreography could easily caught your attention and it really shows the true colors of Thai especially to all the foreign tourists.

Spotted another local kids learning the traditional musical instruments.

We stayed for around 1 hour before calling our driver and head to our second destinations. By the way it was super duper hot in Bangkok we were like roasted pig walking under the hot sun FOL.

The driver came to pick us up after we done and it was like heaven the moment we got into the car. I feel like damn, it really worth every single cent to hire a driver. Imagine we have to call a taxi or tuk-tuk after being all hot and sweaty, I would definitely be grumpy as hell, duh....

Next stop...

2. Chatuchak Weekend Market

Guess what, all the green colored roof you saw are the market itself, and that is like only half of it, imagine the size of the whole market!

Basically you could find almost anything in Chatuchak Market, it's known to be a place 'you name it, you got it'. How true is it, let you judge on your own!

By the way Chatuchak is a roof covered market, good thing is that it does provide shelter from the hot sun, but the heat trapped underneath the connected roof is seriously no joke. So wear as light as you can!

If you really have to go to somewhere with aircond, freak not, there's a air conditioned mall next to the market, a sweet escape from the heat I would say!

Had this roasted pork somewhere in the market, so crispy on the layer but soft and juicy underneath OMG....

This is like wantan mee in Malaysia, not in term of taste, but it's easily found everywhere. And you just can't get bored of it, I don't know is it because of the small portion or is it purely the taste, I just can't help to get another bowl every single time, duh!!!

Just like wantan mee, they serve in both soup base or dried. I love it dried.

And then we went for massage, like right after meal, crazy I know, haha! But it's just foot massage, we were indeed a bit exhausted and feel so reluctant to get back on our feet after meal so we just stubbornly go for massage. They said it's bad for health, but forcing yourself to walk with a sore foot isn't any healthier, so yeah.... Haha!

Actually I bought almost nothing in the market, sigh.... Due to personal preference on clothing I find the clothes there don't suit my liking, especially the size cause I'm definitely not having the body to just buy any clothes without trying and later on fit perfectly. So I almost lost interest in looking for clothes. Then shoes, I am so damn picky when it comes to picking a suitable pair, it ended up that I really can't find any that suit my liking at last.

But don't get me wrong, Chatuchak is a must go place in Bangkok!

Famous coconut ice cream, a must-eat in Chatuchak. It's especially refreshing under the burning hot sun! I don't really like topping on both ice cream or ABC (local shaved ice), so the plain one behind was mine, original and full of coconut taste!

A pic for mummy before we left Chatuchak.

According to our original initerary, we were suppose to get back to hotel for shower and head to Talad Rod Fai Night Market after that. I was actually more excited to go Rod Fai than Chatuchak cause Rod Fai is a vintage themed night market where you can find vintage items, vintage setting cafe or bars, and even vintage decorations such as a Cadillac and stuff, which really sound so cool.

But aparently dad was too exhausted to walk for another few hours, squeezing among the crowd in the night market. Plus the location was a bit further from our hotel, we would need to charter another taxi to get there since our driver service ended at 6.00pm.

Considering all these factor , honestly speaking it did kill my mood a little so I ended up cancel it and change the itinerary to Terminal 21 Shopping Mall.

Had dinner with parents before that, they went back hotel to call it a day while the bf, my sis and I took a tuk-tuk to the mall. It was actually within walking distance but we were too lazy to walk and wanted to try the tuk-tuk LOL....

3. Terminal 21 Shopping Mall

I was actually attracted by the concept of the mall where each floor in the mall represented a country and will be decorated exactly as per the country. I guess my expectation on this mall was a bit too high that I actually feel disappointed to find out it was just a normal shopping mall and the stuff selling there isn't cheap at all. I mean of course it is not fair to compare the price to night market, but in that case, any mall in KL would be as good. Anyhow, I managed to grab a cloth in H&M, haha!!!

Obviously this is taken in Japan, floor. LOL....

And Japan's toilet, haha!

Forgotten which country is it, but very obvious, not Thailand, LOL....

We ended up taking pic and left the mall not long after. Since it was still early, as in not pass 12am kind of early, the bf decided to go the famous condoms themed restaurant located near our hostel.

4. Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant

As its name goes, don't be surprise to see condoms everywhere, LOL...

This is how the interior looks like. It's a combination of both opened-air and roof covered concept. If not mistaken there's no air conditioned room.

How can you not find condoms in condoms themed restaurant. Both of the mannequins are dress up in a costume purely made of condoms, whether used or unused that's a question, LOL!

Another one here, there's one santa made of condoms as well OMG. But luckily the themed remain as decorations only and not on food. I would not be happy at all to see condoms serve on my plate for whatever creative reason it is, duhhh...

Free snacks served upon sitting the guest.

We ordered Phat Thai, Som Tam, and of course, beer. Not really interested with the food, as expected, the food was so-so and nothing to shout about. But the environment and the idea of condoms everywhere worth a visit I would say.

And oh, free condoms given when you settle your bills, haha!

Walked back to our hostel and reached within 5 minutes, that close you see! So we called it a day. Mum and dad had long fallen asleep LOL...

Next day, we packed in the early morning and ready to check out and head to Hua Hin!

Day 3

We departed from our hostel around 8.45am and only stop halfway at Tesco for breakfast an hour later. The journey from Bangkok city to Hua Hin normally takes 3 hours. Since we hired driver throughout our whole trip, I'm not too sure on how to get there via public transport. But dad had made some research earlier, if you travel in smaller group, it's cheaper to share the public van with other tourists than to charter a private car.

Halfway to Hua Hin town, we stopped by a temple near the famous Danong Saduak Floating Market.

5. Wat Bang Kung (Temple in the Tree)

I believe not many will pay a visit to this temple as it is not as commercialized like Wat Pho - The Reclining Buddha Temple or Wat Arun - The Sunrise Temple. However, I find this temple more unique and more like an original Siamese temple.

The temple got its name from what you can see, a temple in the tree.

Us taking group pic in the temple after praying.

The bf, our driver throughout the trip, and daddy~!

By the way, since daddy could speak some basic Thai, the local actually thought he's local Thai and speak endlessly in Thai with him. He ended up having to admit he's not local and couldn't only speak basic Thai, hahahaha!

The tree trunk and roots are still growing in the temple itself.

From the outside, you won't able to tell there's a temple within all the tree trunks, which makes it really special compared to the commercialized man-built temple.

The bf at the entrance of the temple...

Didn't study the history of the temple before I came, but the driver later told us that this piece of land used to be one of the army camp during the war between the Thai and Burmese.

The Thai army and the invaded Burmese.

I laughed like crazy while taking this picture haha! Even the driver couldn't stop laughing and keep asking the bf to change more face expression.

After praying in the temple, we saw a veteran monk and mum asked the driver to get permission with the monk to see if he's willing to give us some blessing. The monk agreed right away and there we were, sitting there while the monk recite Siamese scriptures.

We got holy water from the monk after the blessing and used it to water the tree that covered the temple.

Next to the temple is a piece of land with human statues depicting the Muay Thai. Not sure what is it for cause the driver speak limited English actually, he tried very hard to explain but I still couldn't get him so in the end I just pretend I understood what he said, LOL!

I later found out that it was actually a camp of King Taksin during the war with the Burmese.

I mimicked the statues at first and then mum and dad rushed over and said they want it too, haha! Never too old when it comes to having fun.

Then, we left and head to our next destination of the day, which is another stop halfway before reaching Hua Hin town.

6. Phra Nakhon Khiri Historical Park

Phra Nakhon Khiri was built as a summer palace by King Mongkut and finished in 1860. The name Phra Nakhon Khiri means Holy City Hill, but locals know it better as Khao Wang, meaning hill with palace.

I was a bit hesitate whether to visit this place at first cause it's pretty much an abandoned palace and look like a haunted palace instead, haha! But compared to other destinations like the floating market, Swiss Sheep Farm, Santorini Park and other man-made attraction in Hua Hin, I had to say I rather stick back to Phra Nakhon Khiri.

Well don't be affected with my thoughts, I personally think that all the man-made attractions like Swiss Sheep Farm, Santorini Park, Venezia and so on are like a place for photoshooting only. They would be a beautiful place to go if you are looking for place worth of endless selfie or wefie, LOL...

But for me, I prefer the original Thai kind of trip, so I skipped all the man-made attraction.

Ok back to Phra Nakhon Khiri Park.

We had our lunch there before taking the cable car to the hill top.

Thai Fried Rice if not mistaken.

And Tom Yum Goong, LOOK AT THE EGGYOLK OMG OMG OMG!!!

After lunch, we head to the cable car station right next to the restaurant. The entrance fees is THB200 per head, inclusive of the cable car ride. By the way, it's called cable car but instead of hanging on the cable, it was attached to a track instead, haha! Should we call it a train then? LOL...

Lucky that we are the only passengers for the entire ride on our way up, so we could take endless pictures before depart, duhhh...

This is how the track looks like from the bottom.

Lots of green along the way up, not bad at all!

The view of the bottom station from the top.

Another photo before getting off, typical tourist, haha!

Daddy insisted to mark his visit, I'm suddenly a cameraman now...

Upon reaching at the upper station, it's not the highest point of the hill yet, you have to follow the track and slowly walk uphill.

An overview of the entire hill.

The heritage of King Mongkut palace. The palace remain only as a historical park now but the fine sculpture on each wall and the serene surrounding make it a really worth visiting place.

It's pretty windy at the top too, but the sun is still burning hot, too bad.

Daddy said he gonna post this photo in FB and check in Istanbul, haha wtf!

I think I took like zillion photo in the palace itself. Haha, I walk I see I snap.

This is the look out point which is also the highest point on the hill.

The swirling staircase to get to the top is a bit scary though. I don't know why but I feel kinda eerie the moment I stepped in, hmmmmmm....

But wait till you see the view from the lookout point...

Haunted palace or abandon palace whatever, this place is freaking worth a visit please!

Walking to another end of the hill via this serene walkway. It's kinda eerie to walk alone though, haha! Don't worry this is not a haunted palace, sorry if I scared you too much with haunted here haunted there, LOL...

With the hot sun ghost also don't want to come out so you are safe. But this place is really beautiful right? Feel so peaceful with all the path covered by the trees along the way.

The bench is hot like a burning stone but I still made them sit down quietly and smile to my camera, haha, oopppss~!

A small and stuffy tunnel, it lead to a shrine inside but not to sure what is it, doesn't look like a normal Buddha statue though.

Mummy found her place finally, spot the blue sky at the back!

Further in there's a place where you can ring the bell. Not sure for what, but I just rang it once, for whatever reason it is.

And out of no where, there's a bench looking to a spectacular view. Daddy and mummy become so romantic suddenly, haha!

The bf insisted to have one too, and my poor dad and mum had to potong steam and give up the bench, LOL!!!

On our way down, there was a big group of visitors coming up. Luckily the place was somewhat empty when we were up there, wouldn't be as fun if there's too many people passing by here and there while we were taking pictures.

It was around 3.00pm when we left Phra Nakhon Khiri.

Daddy was a bit exhausted after touring the whole hill under the burning hot sun, so we head to Hua Hin town directly after that.

Was supposed to visit Swiss Sheep Farm cause we will be passing through the farm on our way to Hua Hin town. But we ended up taking pictures at the entrance only cause daddy was not interested to pay entrance fees just to see a man-made farm, tsk... Thought I could see and take picture with Alpaca...

7. Swiss Sheep Farm

Can actually see the whole farm from the outside...

And so we took pictures and left after spending like 10 minutes there, LOL!

Checked in our guesthouse and took a quick bath, then off we go looking for dinner.

8. Chatsila Night Market

Our last destination of the day, Hua Hin night market!

It actually rained when we reached the night market on foot, so unlucky. So we just find a shelter and ordered whatever food available.

No more picture of the night market because I was busy looking here and there, haha...

We actually had another round of dinner at a quite popular restaurant in Hua Hin named Koti. This was the time when we received call and messages from friends and families on the bombing incident in Bangkok City. I was so occupied with reading all the news posted in FB that I didn't eat much and can't even recall what we ordered, duhh!!

The local news were reporting on the bombing incident at Erawan Shrine and we were watching all the videos anxiously at the guest house. The feeling is kinda weird that night, it was all quiet and peaceful in Hua Hin, we were gathering on the veranda drinking beers and having snacks, but everyone was not in mood and didn't talk much. All we have in our mind that night was, how are we going to spend our last day when we get back to Bangkok.

Day 4

The next morning, we had this stew pork rice near our guest house. It looks normal but it tasted really good!

Then off we go, our first destination of the day...

9. Hua Hin Train Station

As the name goes, it's just a train station, nothing much. But Hua Hin Train Station is one of the trademark in Hua Hin as its popularity began to increase in the 1920's after the railway line from Bangkok was constructed and King Rama VI built Klai Kangwon Palace as a summer retreat. Hua Hin's station is one of the oldest in Thailand and its main feature is The Royal Waiting Room that used to welcome King and his court when they were visiting the town.

When we were about to leave, the operator suddenly make announcement in Thai and I thought it was just normal announcement, later on a loud sound came from far followed by the train rushing in and stopped at the station. How lucky LOL!!!

The rest of them were in the car already and when the driver saw me rushing towards the car, he was like,"Ok, very good, train, take picture take picture... Very good..." That is basically how we communicated the entire trip, hahahahaha!

Next station...

10. Wat Huay Mongkol (Temple of Giant Monk)

This temple is my most anticipated attraction before I come! The famous monk, or more commonly known as Luang Phor Thuad, is believed to hold great protective powers granting safety in times of distress, especially saving the lives of believers from seemingly fatal automobile accidents. I had one back in my hometown where our families had been worshiping since small.

Isn't it spectacular!

Group photo before going up. I wrapped myself in my scarf cause I was wearing shorts, no indication that shorts are not allowed, but I decided to cover up as an act of respect to the holy place.

You could get flower and joss stick by donating to the temple, according to your own will. We donated and prayed for good before we left.

Found this Bodhi Flower at the temple, the tree where Buddha was born under.

Next stop...

11. Hua Hin Hills Vineyard

Before the trip I was all excited to visit this Vineyard, probably my own fault to have the thought that it gonna be all cool like Cameron Highland. It turned out to be super duper hot I can't even bare to spend another minute standing under the burning hot sun, duh!

You can tour the vineyard on elephant ride or complimentary jeep service at selected hours. I gave both a pass after looking at the sun, haha! I'm not usually princess-like and have to hide away from the sun all the time, but the weather in Bangkok at my time of visit is totally unbearable no joke.

But then, they have this covered restaurant overlooking the whole vineyard, where you can enjoy a decent meal and tasting wine produced from the grapes grown in the yard itself.

We just simply toured the restaurant for pictures and left not long after. I personally think you may skip this if you aren't too keen on having a meal here or tasting the wine. The yard itself got not much thing to see unless again, you want to experience elephant ride, under the hot sun, LOL...

Our next destination according to itinerary was Plearwan - the vintage village, but Plearwan is best visit at night cause the yellow lighting will make it looks better for photos. We were like 3/4 hours ahead of our schedule cause I thought we would spend hours at the Vineyard but we ended up spending like only 30 minutes there duh!

Our driver then suggested us to visit the Palace of Love & Hope since it is still early. So there we go.

12. Mrigadayavan Palace of Love & Hope

We had our lunch there after reaching the palace. The driver mentioned something about the place being an army based and hence it's self-service and we would need to collect food ourselves once ready, if I didn't get him wrong, though I don't understand what self-service has to do with the army.

All time favorite, Som Tam, or what known as Papaya Salad.

Bf ordered this fish balls, I like the sauce more, LOL!

After that we went to rent bicycle! Oh ya the reason our driver recommended this place was because he thought it would be nice for us to cycle together. Daddy didn't like the idea, I guess he can't cycle most probably hahaha! So he stayed with the driver while the rest of us proceed.

Mummy was a bit worried cause she hasn't cycle for ages, but then I convinced her that cycle is a skill you master for life, once you master it, it's unlikely to forget how to ride, no?

And there she goes...

This place is super relaxing! You can enjoy cycling while enjoying the cooling sea breeze. Not to mentioned all the tall tree that provide shelter despite the hot weather.

Blue blue sky, green green grass, and refreshing sea breeze, best for cycling!

Freak not, this place is not meant for cycling only actually. It's actually a summer palace built by King Rama IV. The entrance fee per head is THB60, and be sure not to wear shorts, else you would need to rent a sarong to cover your legs at THB30, and placing your passport as deposit.

Only limited number of visitors are allowed to enter level two at a specific time, probably because the old building cannot withstand a large crowd at the same time. But do not worry, your entrance ticket will be stating the time for you to enter level two, so all you need to do is just to be ready at the entrance when it's time.

The palace has a very long walkway that head to the beach...

The blue sky turned dark within minutes while we were visiting level two, so we rushed out before it started to rain. Too bad it started to rain once we left the building and we were running like mad to get our bicycle and return the rented sarong.

After getting into the car, it rained cats and dogs damn, so close!

Was supposed to head to Plearwan but when we reached there, the rain was still heavy and the driver said we would be all wet cause the place is opened-air and only limited places are covered with shelter. So we had no choice but to cancel the plan.

Since it was our last day in Hua Hin, so daddy asked the driver to give us a simple tour in the town and along the seaside before we get back to our guesthouse and call it a day.

I guess the driver feel our disappointment so he brought us to another place we have not heard of or researched on before.

13. Wat Khao Takiap

The temple is famously known as The Monkey Mountain as well cause there are like hundreds of monkeys residing in that area. I'm like a little girl hiding behind mummy all the way up to the top duh! The monkeys really walk like a boss there and the driver had reminded us to take care of our belongings as well cause the monkeys are known to snatch visitors bag in search for food.

The rain had just stopped when we reached, hence the gloomy sky. This is the view from the top of the temple.

Bright sky within minutes, what a weird weather duh! But thank god the sky was clear and the view was definitely better! By the way spot the long long staircase you need to climb to get to the top. Speaking about the staircase, we saw a monkey climbing the stair from the bottom and daddy was like all amazed that the monkey climbed 70% of the staircase without stopping to rest. Right after he finished, the monkey stopped to rest, everyone laughed like mad, haha! I think the monkey must be feeling so annoyed to see us laughed that it got up right after and continue climbing to the top, LOL!

There were these large bell that you can hit from the first to the last. I think there were around 30 of them.

Group pic before we left. The view was spectacular indeed!

Driver dropped us at guest house afterwards and ended his service for the day. We had a quick wash up and headed out for dinner. Since it was our last day in Hua Hin, so we went to the night market again after dinner.

Had this banana pancake for THB25, nothing much special but tasted quite good for a quick snack after dinner.

Back to the guesthouse, we were so worried after knowing the second and third bombing incident in Bangkok City. That feeling was totally suck knowing that there's a terrorist bombing incident in Bangkok and yet we are heading right to the city the next day. Worst thing was that our hostel was located right in the area declared as high risk by the army.

Anyhow, we checked out Hua Hin and head back to Bangkok the next day.

Day 5

There was this "Spiderman" selling holy flowers to the vehicles stopping at the traffic light halfway back to Bangkok. He was so much so entertaining dancing on the road trying to sell the flowers and our driver bought one from him. Earning a living isn't hard if one has the will, no?

We checked in The Blocks Hostel again after reaching Bangkok. Was supposed to go Asiatique Riverfront but we had to cancel it due to the bombing incident. I don't want to risk my life and rest in pieces, so all of us agreed to cancel the plan and stay in the hostel till we check out the next day and leave Bangkok.

Everyone was pretty exhausted after the few days trip after all. I took a quick bath and jumped right onto my bed for a quality nap before daddy woke us up for dinner. It was right on time that The Block Hostel was organizing an in-house BBQ and every guest get to join by paying THB150 per head.

This was indeed my first time joining strangers for BBQ. It was quite an experience to hang out with the other tourist and sit down to have dinner together. We had accompanies from South Korea, Syria, Singapore, us Malaysia, and the host Thai!

Spot the old couple lovey dovey at the back, LOL!

Spent time resting at the common area while joining the other guest watching DVD. The bf was having second round of nap, right after dinner LOL!

I made myself a cup of hot chocolate drink at the pantry, free of charge!

Our last day in Bangkok turned out to be not as bad as we thought despite having to cancel our schedule. After all a trip is meant to be relaxing and not a marathon of itinerary. At least we get to have enough rest and having fun getting to know people from different countries. Truly an experience you won't get staying in the high end hotel.

Day 6

Time to get back to reality!

We passed through the Erawan Shrine that got bombed on our way to airport, many armies were seen guarding the area. Feel so relieved that we are leaving Bangkok after the three bombing incidents.

So this is what I bought throughout the entire trip in Bangkok, unbelievable isn't it?!

Everyone who came to Bangkok go back with tons of shopping items but I ended with all these only, amazing... Haha! Even the cloth was bought in H&M!!!

So that's all on my trip to Bangkok and Hua Hin.

Driver information

We contacted the tour agency via The Best Thai Tour, Mr Sakon was the one who replied to us and arranged the driver for us after confirming our itinerary. Our driver is Mr Anurak, you may request for him if you want to.

Hotel in Bangkok

The Blocks Hostel
Review:-
1. Clean and comfortable surrounding
2. King size bed is soft and comfortable
3. Wifi speed is good
4. 5 minutes walking distance to BTS Asoke Station and Terminal 21 Shopping Mall
5. Probably the cheapest room rates in Bangkok City

Hotel in Hua Hin

Ansu Guesthouse
Review:-
1. Clean environment but a bit too old
2. Bed is hard but bearable
3. Wifi speed is good
4. 5 minutes walking distance to Chatsila Night Market and famous Chao Lay Seafood
5. Probably the cheapest room rates in Hua Hin

Total Expenses

The Bold Lab Cafe in Kota Bharu

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:38:00 +0000

Nice cafe scattered everywhere in KL, so many that you could easily find a cosy cafe serving decent coffee almost everywhere you go. But in KB, most of the local prefer the cheaper and more traditional type of coffee you find in the old school kopitiam. Sad to say, there is almost none that brew proper espresso from the coffee machine until I recently found one.

The Bold Lab cafe is one that I visited lately during my CNY holiday back in my hometown.

They do provide smoking area outdoors, but with the scorching hot sun, I would prefer to enjoy my coffee in the air conditioned indoors instead.

Their interior deco is kinda simple and cosy. The dim lighting and some simple decoration on the wall makes the environment soft and comfortable to sit in and enjoy your fresh brewed coffee.

Ordered Macchiato @ RM6.90 for myself. I'm not really good in differentiating good coffee but to compare it with those normal kopitiam's coffee or local Malay's cafe, the fresh brewed coffee here is no doubt better.

There are a lot of other cafe in KB actually, but the coffee served are either too diluted or too sweet. You will either have super diluted coffee that looks like drain water, or super sweet coffee as if the sugar is free. But of course there are still small percentage that serve nice mixed coffee.

Bf ordered Iced Caramel Macchiato @ RM10.90. Don't really like it cause the caramel taste kinda weird that it spoils the taste of the coffee.

Overall the cafe is worth visit if you're looking for a comfortable cafe to chit chat with a decent coffee.

Price wise it is slightly cheaper than KL. But among other cafe in KB, it would be slightly more expensive.

However, considering it serves freshly brewed coffee, I guess it would be fair to say the price is reasonable.

Have fun trying.

Aromatherapy Massage @ Thai Odyssey, Mid Valley

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:21:00 +0000

Selamat Hari Raya to all~~!!!

So I was stuck in this dead city (because everyone went back lol) during this 4-day holidays, big sigh! Supposed to be a real good timing to go back my hometown in Kelantan, but then as expected, bus tickets were all sold out, and flight is never an option during festive season everybody knows that, unless you really desperate till you willing to pay that hundreds to get home. Sad to say, my last time home was during Chinese New Year, can you imagine that? *cry*

To compensate that, the bf and I had decided to "trade" the 2-way bus tickets with 1 hour full body massage, haha!!

So there we were, Thai Odyssey at Mid Valley Level 2.

The bf was hesitating should we opt for a cheaper massage like those around Bukit Bintang, and I was like, hmmmmmmmm, those seems like *clear throat* massage that comes with "special services" for me, duh!!! Okay maybe not all offer "special services" lah, but then to think of it, the massage over there not too cheap as well, full body massage still cost around RM80 - RM100.

Considering this is my very first body massage, I prefer to leave it to the expert and opt for one with well-trained masseur. Another reason is because of the environment, used to pass through Thai Odyssey in different shopping mall and I'm always attracted to their soothing design and lighting, especially the spa-kind-of-smell. So I still rather to pay a little bit extra for the environment and the service.

Ok, cut the super long intro, let me review my very first experience in Thai Odyssey!

I'd actually called and made an appointment before I went there, not sure is it necessary, but better pre-booked than to get disappointed when you finally reached and only to notice all rooms are occupied. The front counter are rather simple, basically you will be greeted once you enter, and they will confirm the type of massage you opt for and you would need to settle the payment before the service.

They do sell their products such as massage oil, body lotion and body wash etc.

We chose to have Aromatherapy Massage @ RM118 before tax, for 1 hour of full body massage. You may opt for 90 mins or 120 mins according to your own preference. Before the massage begin, we get to choose our massage oil. There are 5 types of massage oil available, I only remember 2 of them because I chose the one named "Relax" and bf chose "Purify". The other 3 have stronger smell like those normal massage oil, I don't want to smell like massage oil when I walk out, LOL... Relax has the best smell, as its name goes, the smell is very gentle and relaxing.

Part of their interior design, looks very classy and relaxing. I bet those cheaper pricing one won't bother to enhance the interior deco, the environment really count okay, it definitely makes you feel a lot more relax and comfortable.

Cleaning your smelly feet before the massage. Like the warm pebbles, not sure is it heat up from the bottom or the heat purely comes from the hot water from the tap.

Scrub and soap to clean the smelly feet, LOL...

If I were to give negative feedback, the only thing that made me feel bad is to have an old lady washing your feet. I mean I understand this is her work of servicing the customers, but she is of my grandma age, or probably just slightly younger, how could you sit still and enjoy elderly washing your toes. I actually feel super uncomfortable and would be more than glad to wash it on my own.

And watching her wash the bf's one doesn't feel any better as well. To lessen my guilt, I think I actually said "Thank you" like for more than 5 times no joke. Saying once when she pass me the slippers, once when she asked to wash my toes, once when she done washing and so on.Still, it doesn't feel any better.

No, I'm not exaggerating or acting kind here please.

After that, we were ushered to our room. I'd requested for couple room when I called for booking. Would be nice to enjoy our first massage together.

We were asked to remove all clothes including inner wear, and they provide disposable underwear for change. I can't stop laughing at the bf, he's like wearing a diaper because the disposable underwear seems to be a bit oversize for him, hahaha!!! And then you would be like lying naked on the bed, covered with only towels, and the disposable underwear of course, LOL!

Hot tea was provided before the massage. Took a few sip to relax the mind and body.

The massage begin with back and shoulder massage. The moment the masseur started I was like, holy mama, this is too good to be true. The masseur was an original Siamese and the way they speak English is a bit funny, haha. Exactly like the Krappi Call from FlyFM, LOL! It feels a bit awkward at first because my lower half body was covered with towel, but then I feel like half of my butt is exposed, LOL WTF... I mean the masseur did it on purpose because she need to get to my waist for the back body massage. She had probably seen zillion butt already I know, but then it's still super awkward.

The back body massage took around 15 mins, then they shifted for legs massage. Still heaven, I have no idea how to express it. The pressure is just nice to sooth your muscle or nerves whatever, not too hard for me to yell in pain.

And after like another 15 mins, we were asked to flip over and lying down facing the ceiling. Then they continue to massage the legs from the front like for another 10 mins, and the arms for like 10 mins as well.

After that, the two masseurs mentioned something and went out. The bf and I was like, are we done? We were afraid that they are done but we still lie down there waiting stupidly, haha!!! But they came in again not long after and we were asked to sit straight, and enjoy the last 10 minutes of shoulder and neck massage. This part actually hurt a little, because the neck and the shoulder are a bit sensitive than others, and they put on harder pressure for the last part I was trying so hard not to make any ouucchhh sound, duhh...

So there goes the one hour full body massage. The masseur is really good and I really like their service as well. No hard sell, no subscription of whatever packages whatsoever, you go in, pay for what you want, and you leave. That's it. Don't have to be all stressful and annoyed with hard selling staff asking you to top up this and that, subscribe this and that blah blah blah...

They do have packages, of course with cheaper price than one-off service, but what I like is they totally leave it to you to decide or even figure it out yourself, no hard sell strategy at all.

Planned to have some shopping after that, but the mall was super duper crowded. I thought it gonna be less crowd considering many had went back or went for vacation for Raya. So we left and went to Jalan Alor for dinner.

Was a bit reluctant to go at first, street food after such a pampering massage is like so potong steam. *roll eyes* But the bf die die also want to go and try, so I gave up and just follow.

There were a lot of hawker centre there, but I seriously hate the workers from different hawker centre yelling to you hoping you to pick their restaurant instead of any others. So as you walk down the street, you probably have more than 10 people trying to pursuade you enter their restaurant. I SUPER HATE IT!

Too much of choices we finally settled at Restoran Sai Woo (西湖). Ordered Penang Fried Kuey Tiaw @ RM6, Oo-Jien (Fried Oyster) @ RM12, Kam Heong Balitong (a type of shell) @ RM18, 2 pieces of chicken wing @ RM6, and 2 milk tea @ RM5.

Kuey Tiaw taste like raw Kuey Tiaw, super pale colour and almost no taste. Oo-Jien is the weirdest one I've eaten, they just fried the egg with flour, and throw few oysters on top. The oyster is not even inside the egg, WTF??? Kam Heong Balitong was okay, nothing special to shout about but still not bad. Chicken wing, forget bout it, I can easily flavored the same one, no big deal.

Total damage RM42 for 2 person and I'm not impress at all. Rather spend it eating my favorite sushi. I know I shouldn't judge the whole road because of this one particular restaurant, saw a few review online that there are indeed lots of nice food over here. And I just happened to get one which I'm not satisfied at all, sien.

Bf read of this nice coconut ice cream review online and went to looked for it. It was kinda special indeed, tasted not bad, but I was a bit full from the not-delicious-food and ended up feeling so bloated to really enjoy the dessert.

So there goes my one day of holiday. Still have 2 days to go before work, and I'm so gonna stay at home not gonna spend anymore. Brought back works to do for this Raya holiday, sad, gonna work at home tomorrow.

Ok bye~!

Happy 8th Anniversary!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 03 May 2014 08:14:00 +0000

Was supposed to publish this post on my anniversary, but I was working uphill in Genting Highland and went clubbing after work I totally forgot bout this important date.

I have no idea why both of us just forgotten this important date every single year, no joke, EVERY SINGLE YEAR... It always be like OMG OUR ANNIVERSARY HAD PASSED!!! Guess maybe because my birthday is 2 day before our anniversary, we always celebrated my birthday and forgotten our anniversary.

But never mind, at least the bf was with me up there, despite both of us forgotten this important date. Made him up hill to introduce my bunch of friends (also colleagues la though different departments) to him, and I went clubbing for the first time, and 2 nights in a row some more. Crazy.....

So here we are, on our 8TH ANNIVERSARY~~~!!!!

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Us in the recent years, and..................

Us in the previous years, hahahahahaha......!!!

As time passed, our look changed, our thinking changed, our preference changed... But my love to you never changed...

Thanks for being part of my family, and making me part of your family...

And all the sweet sweet tiny creatures that you got me all these while, from tortoise to fishes, fishes to hamsters, hamsters to guinea pigs. They meant so much than LV and Prada, as long as they're from you...

Also all the kiddy stuff I made you to buy me, I have no idea why I need them.... haha!

Thanks for bringing me to to here and there, trying to figure out all sort of ideas to bring me out of boredom...

And being silly and bring so much joy and love into my life.... Though it's a bit retard and annoying sometime, especially your alien language text message....

Thanks for being there for me all these while, I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU EACH DAY!!!!

The Old China Cafe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:54:00 +0000

Just before I begin writing this post, I stumbled upon a blog from a friend of mine, writing about her thoughts and emotions. For a moment, I was like, hmmmmmmmm, when is the last time I blog about sad or emotional cases in my blog?

I mean of course I'd written them before, could say that I used to grumble a lot in my blog complaining this and that, especially during my A-levels. Used to be sad and emotional for relationship matters, be it intimate relationship or normal friendship matters, studies, and yah..... money, LOL.

But as time passed, or maybe I should say, as I grow older, I found that how you live your life is all about how you manage your thoughts, or to be more precised, your mindset.

Think positively, then you will live your life happily. Think negatively, and you will live your life miserably. It's actually as simple as that. Of course things happen and it's hard to always force yourself to see the bright side of it instantly, take your time to grieve bout it, but bare in mind that in the end of the day, life still goes on, sticking at the same position will lead you to no where. So why not turn around and look for the bright side of it?

That is when I decided to change my mindset and stop blogging about all the negative thinking. Last time I used to see my blog "Lost In Bermuda" as a place where I come to grumble and let all the negative things be gone in this blog. But now, I wan my blog to be happier by posting bout all the happiness in my life.

So my friend, if you happen to read this, you're stronger than what you thought. Some people deserve a place in your heart and some doesn't. Some people exist to lighten your life and some to mess it up. Some people stay to fulfill your life, and some leave to make your life better. Life too short to grieve about the sad things instead of being grateful for all the wonderful things happening around. So, let's be you once again. =)

And then, today's post is to update on another happening outing of mine, with the Celsius Babes of course. Well, now that everyone of us had started our career, some started quite sometime, some just begin like me, but most important of all, we had all move forward to another stage of life. Kuli life lah what else, LOL....

You know joining society is not about work work work and work all the time, it's all about being socialized, ah bor why call society right? So we have to make sure we get to see each other faces more often no matter how busy we are, LOL....

Went to Old China Cafe somewhere around Petaling Street for a brunch meet up. All of us were cracking head days before on deciding where to go despite living in the centre of this big town with countless nice place to hang out. LOL.... All because of money lah what else.... Some of us were too broke to opt for nice (and pricey) cafe so it was kinda hard to decide where to go. Even come out with the idea of just drive-thru the McDonalds outside my house, and then eat near to my condo's swimming pool, haha wtf!

So I Googled and found this place, wouldn't say it's cheap lah, but it's more affordable compare to better cafe in town. Don't be demotivated by its external deco though, you will be surprised when you scroll down for the pictures of the interior design.

Looking from the outside, it's like a super old morning cafe in the old times, where all the elderly come out to have their morning coffee and chit-chatting among them. But the cafe is super old indeed, operating since 1920s no joke, the owner had tried to preserve the ancient structure of it despite the nearby units had all renovated to keep pace with the modern time.

This is how it looks like from the inside. Told you not to be cheated by its outlook. There is actually another piece of mirror right opposite the one you saw in the pic above, for Feng Shui purposely, the Chinese said it perpetually reflect good luck.

The wall is full of these real pictures of ancient time, preserving the memories of all the old times. Not sure whether all these pictures are relevant to the owner, tempted to ask but never did ask, LOL....

Look at the old school switch, where else can you find these black ancient switch today?

The interior of the cafe is also decorated by all these ancient decos, not the fire extinguisher la, please ignore that, haha!

And this super antique fan. Not sure is functioning, tried to lift it for a selfie, but it's nailed on the table already, LOL, the owner gonna scold me.

As usual, selfie before the food comes!

Another one.... LOL...

Happened to wear the same color tee, oopppssss....

Pie-Tee / Top Hats (4 pieces) @ RM7.80

First dish served, it looks somewhat like those served in Vietnamese cuisine, but way to pricey for me. I rather pay half of the price to get seaweed poppiah from any hawker stall.

Food scan before eating. Just in case the food is poisonous you know.

Each person got a scope, gulp, and gone. Bo syiok....

Nyonya Chap Chai @ RM10.80

Sorry for the blurry pic. The portion for all the dishes are meant for two person only. So you could actually see the portion is really really too little for the 6 of us. And the taste, normal. Really really normal, duh...

Chui Pei Tofu @ RM9.80

Deep fried soft tofu with minced meat. Taste normal too, just like the one you get from any Chinese stir fry restaurant.

Kari Kapitan Chicken @ RM15.90

This dish is very disappointing. I expect it to taste better but it turns out way below my expectation. Even my curry taste better seriously. Maybe Nyonya cuisine is more on light taste I don't know? Cause almost every dishes taste lighter than the normal Chinese stir fry one.

Coconut Rice (one pax) @ RM1.90

We ordered for 4 pax, so they mixed it in a bigger bowl for us. Looks very appetizing but the taste is also normal, not too good to awe me yet.

Nyonya Fried Rice @ RM10.90

Read some review online and most of them recommended this Nyonya fried rice, so I was having a slightly higher expectation on it too. Again, taste normal for me. Nothing to be bragged about seriously, sigh.

Ah we also ordered this soup called Itik Tim @ RM9.90. I have no comment on it, personally not a soup lover, I took a sip and that's it, haha, so no comment.

And then dessert time!!!!!!

Santan Durian @ RM13.90

This is heaven, it's actually a whole pure durian in it, with the santan as topping. Might be to queasy to have it all your own, so sharing is advisable.

Bubur Cha-Cha @ RM5.90

You can order it hot or cold. We have it cold. Very nice and refreshing as well, the sweetness and the texture is just nice, not too sweet and not to thick for the gravy. Perfect for my liking.

Sago Gula Melaka @ RM5.90

This comes with a separate gula melaka topping, you could pour it according to your own liking of sweetness. I don't mind having the sweetness of gula melaka so we just go wild and pour everything in, LOL....

And then chit-chat time after brunch. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh speaking about the rich tai-tai's life. How awesome would it be.

Group pic before leaving, as usual.

Everyone's looking freaking awesome as usual.

Just us pretend to be tourist, haha!

So that's all for now. Gotta off for bed, bed time is super precious now that I'm a work slave. But never mind, I'm enjoying my work, and trust me, I would climb that freaking ladder to get higher and higher so that I could afford to spend bigger and bigger, haha!

Good night world!!!

UMAI-YA Japanese Restaurant @ KLCC

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:30:00 +0000

So it was my 7th Valentine with my dear, it gonna be our 8th anniversary in 2 months time actually, but we were in relationship 2 months after Valentine, that's way.

The BF had finally work, though only few months, so he decided to treat me for something better for our Valentine this year. I wasn't really like the idea at first cause you certainly know the salary for fresh graduates wasn't enough to enjoy all the good food after deducting all the necessary expenses. But still he insisted, so we finally settled for Japanese cuisine in Umai-Ya, KLCC branch.

It was a last minute plan actually, so we didn't manage to do pre-booking, and reached there to know all the tables were fully booked. But lucky enough, they had one extra table for us and we manage to get our seats after waiting for 15 minutes or so.

Their ala-carte menu.... They have buffet for RM58+ per person from 11.30am to 2.30pm. But it is only available in Damansara and Puchong branches.

Salmon Sashimi @ RM25++

Umai-Ya is well known of its fresh sashimi, as reviewed by most of the blogs over the internet, so I ordered my favorite Salmon sashimi to give it a try. Couldn't remember the exact price for this 5-piece salmon sashimi, it was around RM25 if not mistaken.

And the taste, I wasn't sure how to define the freshness. For me, it tasted somewhat similar to the one in Sushi Zanmai, which was priced way cheaper, though the slice is thinner. I would definitely go to Sushi Zanmai to satisfy my crave for salmon sashimi rather than Umai-Ya.

Well maybe it is indeed fresher, but I can't tell the difference, so no point paying extra. LOL...

Set of 3 Appetizer (not exact name) @ RM15.90++

Appetizer includes Itako Kyuli (seasoned baby octopus), Chuka Kurage (seasoned jelly fish), and Chuka Chimni (seasoned scallop wings), I super love these 3 dishes. They could be ordered separately at RM8.90 if not mistaken, but I chose to have these 3 altogether at RM15.90 if not mistaken again. Maybe the separate one is in bigger portion.

Chicken Sukiyaki @ RM22.90++

Hmmmmm.... I wasn't really satisfy with the way they serve it. The one I used to order in Sushi Zanmai was Beef Sukiyaki. They serve the egg and beef slices separately, and most important of all, the pot is served on a stove to keep it boiling. This Chicken Sukiyaki in Umai-Ya was served exactly like the picture shown above, where the chicken and the egg are all in the pot when it is served. Well maybe the chicken takes longer to get cooked as compare to beef slices so they served it right away in the soup.

Even so, I still prefer it to be served on a stove, because the soup got cold pretty fast and it was only warm instead of boiling hot. And then the taste, hmmmm the taste is just nice, nothing special.

Mixed Sashimi & Vege Rice (not exact name) @ RM39.90

The most expensive rice I've eaten so far, LOL. Couldn't recall the name of this dish, it was a combination of around 5 different sashimi ranging from salmon, maguro (tuna), tako (octopus), ika (cuttlefish), and suzuki (seabass), with omelette and cucumber, topped with errrrrr fish roe (??), the round orangy jelly stuff, LOL. It comes along with a soup with tofu, not sure what's the name, maybe normal miso soup or something similar.

Ok, the taste. It tasted heavenly good for the first few mouths, with the fragrance rice, fresh sashimi, and the fish roe that pop in your mouth. Everything blends in very well. The bf was a bit reluctant to order this rice at first for its expensive pricing, but I was so tempted to try what's so special bout this rice to be priced so expensive, so I said I will forgo my salmon sashimi for this. Well, the bf is like the best bf on earth, he knew I love salmon so much so he ordered both for me. *touched*

Why I said it tasted heavenly good for the first few mouths is because the more I eat the more I feel the rice is a bit sweet. Not sure how they seasoned the rice to get the sweetness, but I feel a lil bit unhealthy the more I eat it. Duh....

Avocado Maki with Baby Octopus (not exact name) @ RM25++

Sorry, I couldn't recall the name of this avocado maki as well as the price. Thought I could easily Google them at home but to my surprise I Googled Umai-Ya's menu and found almost nothing. Not even one of those I'd ordered, I have no idea why.

This sushi roll is a must try!!! I don't know how they did it but the avocado seems to melt in your mouth. The one I always eaten in Zanmai wasn't as soft as this, they were harder and tasteless. I wasn't sure of which maki to order at first and asked the waiter to recommend, she then recommended this and I was really pleased with the taste. This is definitely the best dishes among all those ordered that day.

Fried Chicken Bones @ RM15.00++

The bf taught it was fried chicken and ordered it, the waiter then remind us that this is not chicken meat but its soft bones and reconfirm whether we really want it. I was like, okay, chicken bones, let's try, LOL...

Paying that price to eat chicken bones sound a bit retard actually, haha! But the taste was quite okay la, would be a nice snack to serve with beer, for its so crunchy and chewy.

Fried Cuttle Fish @ RM15.00++

Last but not least, fried cuttle fish which taste way normal to me. It was serve with mayonaise instead of any other sauce, which I think is seriously a suck combination. Even the one I eat at roadside "Lok-lok" taste much much better, with its spicy satay sauce. This one was way too dry and tasteless.

Well, in general, the food was okay. But I may not revisit it, consider I could get the same satisfaction at Sushi Zanmai at a way cheaper price. For sure the environment in Umai-Ya is way more classy, but the food doesn't really impress me to the stage that I would make frequent visit.

So, try it once and judge on your own. =)

Bill Total : RM192.00 (for 2 pax)
Ambience : 5/5
Food : 4/5
Service : 5/5
Serving Speed : 5/5

Will I revisit? Maybe, but not in near future.

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"Farewell" to My Soulmate

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 07:20:00 +0000

Super outdated post in my draft already, was so busy with my endless assignments I could just upload all the pictures and saved as draft to be edited when I'm finally free.

Feel a lil bit awkward to have mumbled over my assignments and studies when my peers are all stepping their foot into the society, joining the work force like months months months ago already. No I'm not studying because I failed or extended my course. Guess I'd taken the longer pathway to get my degree through A level and a freaking 4-year degree course with honors.

Honestly speaking I'd never regretted taking Cambridge A level, it seriously marked the most precious time of my life, not to mention the quality of its certificates. But a 4-year degree course in MMU is killing me, TOTALLY.... Sort of ruining my life I just can't wait to graduate in a blink of eye, damn!

OK enough with the studies stuff. It will all end for good after this Chinese New Year, woots!

Talking bout my student life, though I hated being a student so much, but it was undeniably happening and printed a hell lots of sweet memories in my soul. An opposite gender soul mate in the same class all the way from kindergarten till Form 5 in secondary school; my first crush and many many more crushes (LOL); my first love; my gang of friends; and most important of all, MY TRUE LOVE which was a total stranger to me till we awkwardly get closed through the internet and duno-how finally stay together till now. No he's not stranger from the internet, we were from the same school, duh.

And there's one special one whom I never thought would be the one who last.

Yes she was a member of my gang, but honestly speaking I think we weren't that close back then though hanging out everyday during school time. And after graduated from secondary school, all the friends spread to pursue their own dream and sad to admit, I find myself leaving with no friends.

It was always the bf and me. He's my friend, he's my soul mate, he's my lover. Happy and sad, I found no one to share except my bf. It was kinda sad, I used to be so emo all so sudden back then and the bf would be like OMG which role should I play now, haha!

It was a real hard time whenever I quarreled with the bf, it's like I'm all alone and no one to talk to. Used to talk to another opposite gender friends whenever I had problems with the bf, but then you know, things would get wrong having an opposite gender friends to comfort you whenever you quarrel with your love one, if you get what I mean.

And the most killing moment of all, I sometime find myself have no friends to hang out with. It's like when you suddenly feel like fleeing from your dull routine and have a cup of coffee somewhere with someone, you don't have the right one to call. That's exactly how I feel. At times I could sit quietly, thinking of who to call to have that damn coffee with me.

Couldn't recall when did we finally get closed despite hanging out in a gang since secondary school, but it definitely feel different from what I feel during the school time. It's like I could finally have someone who think the same (although not exactly the same, that would be super eerie), act the same, or even talk the same with me. What we call someone that could "click" well with you.

I used to hope to get graduated faster, start to work, and get myself a damn car, so I could find her more often rather than having her to drive all the way to meet/fetch me all the time. And when I finally have 2 more months before I graduate, she decided to move back hometown to manage family business. *thunderstorm*

Yes you, if you happened to read this, you know how sad I am or not......................... ◕︵◕

Went to Pavilion for a meet up before she went back. And then craving strikes and we went Capricciosa for a heavy high tea instead of shopping as the initial plan, LOL....

We had this lunch buffet priced at RM22+ each person, where you could order almost everything in the menu, crazy or not...

And let's see what we ordered....

Smoked Salmon Salad (Light) - RM11.90

Savory Meat Soup (Light) - RM5.90

Calamari Fritto (Regular) - RM13.90

Squid Ink Linguine - RM22.90

Creamy Porcini Pappardelle - RM29.90

Without the lunch buffet deal, what we ordered would amount to RM84.50 without tax, and with the deal we paid only RM53.00 in total after tax. Mad worth it OMG!

The Squid Ink Linguine is a must try, I personally love it so much! But be prepare to poop the next day, because your poop will come out exactly the same color, no joke, hahahaha!!!

Went H&M for CNY shopping and I ended up buying another dress.

Guess which one I got at last?

The red one. But now I'm a lil regretted for not getting the blue one instead.

The bf joined us for dinner later on, it was like only 2 hours after I had the lunch buffet in Capricciosa. Ծ_Ծ

Went to Ben's. My first time actually, heard of it long ago, but never tried.

Love the ambience, the dim light and the background music was so much soothing and relaxing.

French Fries - RM8.80

Ordered french fries as usual, my bitch love fries, hahaha!

Bread & Butter Pudding with Hot Custard Sauce - RM12.00

I was too bloated to have proper meal after the buffet in Capricciosa, so I ordered only dessert, skipping the drink as well, duh!

Char-Grilled Seafood Spaghetti - RM26.00

Bf ordered pasta, he loves it, but it's a bit dry for my liking, I still prefer moist pasta with gravy.

Iced Latte - RM9.90

Watermelon Lychee - RM9.90

Berry Pavlova - RM14.00

And another dessert from her, because we were both too bloated to have another pasta, haha!

Again, I FORGOT TO TAKE PIC!!!!!!

My god I have no idea why I always forgot to take pic whenever we hang out though I've always reminded myself before hand, every single time! I couldn't find any pic of us, especially recent meeting, not a single one WTF. We always meet, shop, eat, talk blah blah blah blah, and then bidding goodbye. And every single time I enter my car, I would msg her yelling "Where is our photo?!".

BIG SIGH!

Browsed through my instagram and managed to find only one pic of us, taken 2 years back some more, my god.....

Make sure you find me when you come KL sapo..... LOL....

2014 New Year Celebration at Brussels Beer Cafe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:53:00 +0000

First post of the year 2014!!!!

No I'm not gonna do all the new year resolution stuff, that's so out of "fashion" already, like who care anyway, LOL...

So how you guys celebrated your new year eve????

Mine was rather simple, they said this new year is special due to the 1314 thingy, so I also cannot lose out and must have my boy with me, haha!

Okay he isn't that sweet after all, don't be cheated, duh... He actually refused to come and stay overnight at my place cause he said it would be bored to death here. *roll eyes*

(FYI we used to stay in the same exact house, he moved out since he graduated earlier than me.)

Gone through all the debate of him asking me to go over Setapak and me asking him come over Cyberjaya. I have exam on second day of new year, so I was kinda reluctant to go Setapak, knowing I would get all distracted. So I asked him to come over after his work from Damansara and then we could head out for count down right away.

Not going to brief you the content any longer, it would spoil all our lovey dovey image, duh!

So in the end, he came over... I win. HAHA!

He didn't tell me he was allowed to leave his office one hour earlier, then he sms-ed me being all frustrated having stuck in the massive traffic jam. Minutes later there he went standing right outside my door. *scream*

So instead of rushing to town and having stuck in the traffic jam, we decided to settle at Setia Walk, Puchong. It looks somewhat similar to Sunway Giza actually, just that the crowd are like all kids like that, those secondary school type of kids. @@

The Beer Factory here is for sure a lot lot lot nicer than the one in Sunway Giza, the design, the size, a lot better seriously, they have skybar on top too. I haven't really go in actually, have been to Setia Walk twice and I just passed through it.

Opted for Brussels Beer Cafe again this time, cause the bf and I had not eaten since lunch and was starved like shit, so we planned to settle our dinner while having some beer. Reached there around 8.30pm and ignorantly thought our father own that restaurant and we could just go in and order and eat wtf, haha!

End up waited for 1 whole hour just to get a table, and by the time we had out seats, it wasn't really our turn to have the table yet actually.

NO I didn't jump queue. When I first reached and asked for a table, the waiter told us that we should wait at least 1 hour before getting our table. Then I instantly asked can I just opt for the bar seat, don't mind the uncomfortable chair I just want to fill my growling stomach. I always do this when I go to Chili's during the peak hour, haha, my uncle teach one actually. Nobody like bar top seat, that's why. Good for easy going people like us, I just want to have a sit quickly and eat! And oh, if you haven't know, you don't have to queue for bar top, so next time you're damn hungry, just go for the bar top!

Was a bit annoyed when the waiter said we could have the bar top seat, but the problem there isn't enough chair, WTF?

So I still have to wait. *flip table*

Waited for one whole hour and I really tak boleh tahan so I hurried the waiter to come over again, and point him the two empty chair I'd eyed on, HAHA! So we finally got our seat.

No the couple wasn't us.

Belgian interior design, super love~

Ordered Hoegaarden Rosee again, wasn't in mood to have the normal beer that day, LOL...

And the bf had this Irish Cider, it was my first try on cider actually, and the taste was quite good!

Just me with my Rosee~~

Yaaaa I know I've been eating all those fattening food these few weeks my god I'm so gonna gain back all the weight I've lost... =/

Belgium Frite @ RM11.90

Main course no longer available since it was already a quarter before 10pm and hence we ordered the side order...

Mini Fish & Chips @ RM13.90

Chicken Skewer @ RM19.80

This is actually quite good! The chicken meat was so tender and juicy, though a lil bit overpriced.

Brussel's Pork Burger @ RM20.80

The burger came the last and we were already so fulled, wasted... =/

It was really good, though I still prefer the pork burger in Kissaten, you may read my review here. LOL...

Best decision I'd made in my life. 4 more months before our 8th anniversary. And my boy, if you happened to read this, I LOVE YOU!!!! LOL....

Xmas Gift From Resort World Genting

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:19:00 +0000

♫ Hark the herald angel sings~~~ Falalalala lala lala~~~

Yes, that is how my brain sing it which I have no idea why at all. Is like a cancerous cell growing in my brain I can't stop singing "Deck The Hall" with the combination of "Hark! The Angel Sings". zZzz...

Not really the combination of the two actually, I sing the lyric "Hark the herald angel sings" with the tone of "Deck the halls with boughs of holly", if you get what I mean. Try and see, haha!!

So for this festive season, no I didn't go for any countdown party nor any celebration, I actually got dumped at home counting down with Family Outing........ a Korean entertainment show. How ironic. The bf had died trying to get me out but I refused to mainly because I could somehow sensed that I would get bored there.

Planned to have a couple count down at first which obviously the bf prefer his gang over me, maybe because we get to see each other everyday, got a lil annoyed I just say GO GO GOOOOO.....

So on Christmas itself, I went to collect my "Xmas Gift" from Genting...... with the hangover bf. *grumpy* He actually woke up in the morning acting like a retard, slow motion and stupid stupid liddat my god lucky enough I din't whack him.

It was so misty that day but we managed to get to the top safely. Expect Genting to be super crowded so we went out earlier and lucky enough to have found a parking lot right after the entrance.

Feel like hazy instead of misty, LOL...

Sister and cousin, Priscilla, tag along cause cousin was staying over my house for a few days.

So we had our breakfast at The Bakery again. Was hesitating between Starbuck and The Bakery because the pastry and beverage in The Bakery is super pricey! Settled down for The Bakery at last because Starbucks doesn't have open air seats for me to enjoy the cold breeze. And I actually regretted so much after that, damn!!!

Ordered this Chocolate-duno-what for RM14, and it taste like a cheap cake you could buy on the road side.

Bolognaise bread or something, RM12, my god it's so hard throw dog also die. zZz... The cheese on top is like eating plastic.

Turkey and Onion Quiche for RM8, no comment, totally overpriced.

Hot mocha for RM12. Normal taste.

I was so disappointed my god! Went there last January to collect my cheque and I still blog about my nice experience there. Here's the link http://lostinbermuda.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-bakery-maxims-genting.html.

I can't believe the pastry turned so awful, or I had problem with my tastebud before this? zZz... Should have opt for Starbucks!!!

Linger around the First World Plaza for a while, it gets pretty boring cause the theme park had closed down for upgrade, so I could only think of the casino as the alternative. But cousin and sis are still underage, so I didn't go casino at last, though the bf had been dying to try some luck.

This is how the theme park looks like now. *jaw dropped*

I actually thought they just gonna add another few games on top of those already present, never know they demolished everything.

Went for shopping after that and bought this burgundy blazer for only RM60, woooo mad worth. It match my shorts I wore that day too, LOL!

I went to collect my cheque if you wonder, allowance from my scholarship, teehee... How thoughtful is Genting to prepare it earlier this year since Chinese New Year fall on end of January. Somemore I get to collect it on Christmas, isn't it the best Christmas gift??? *dancing in joy*

Alright, my pic to end this post, haha!

One more month before CNY, and two more months before I wave MMU goodbye FOREVER...

Can't wait OMG!!!

Rendezvous Steak Garden, Kampung Pandan

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:09:00 +0000

UPDATE

So as I previously promised, I would one day return for their cheese fondue, here I am again! =D

This time is mainly because a former housemate of my sis come for a stay over, so we brought her to Rendezvous again since she never been there before.

So for this time round, I'd decided to try on their Cheese Fondue since it seem to be quite a popular menu whenever I went.

Cheese Fondue Chicken @ RM16.80

A pot of cheese with the heating flame underneath. Looks good tastes good!

Cheese Fondue Chicken @ RM16.80

And the chicken. The chicken pieces are just normal flour-fried chicken I would say, but it would be just nice to be dipped into the cheese gravy. You wouldn't want the chicken itself to override the taste of your cheesy gravy right?

Actually I only noticed later that the cheese gravy was actually the same as the one for the escargot, also the bun is actually the one served with mushroom soup. So now you know, if you craved for the cheese gravy from the escargot and the sweet bun that come with the mushroom soup, as I previously recommended, you might just order this and get you craves satisfied with only one dish, oh, with extra chicken pieces some more, LOL!

There are a lot more other dishes in their menu, the grilled chicken chop, pasta, side orders like baked potato and so on, sis had tried the pasta before, but we forgot to take any pics mainly because everyone was starving, duh!

So go and give them a try!!!

Previous published on 20th May 2013 as follow:-

Morning world~~

OMG I'm in a total Monday blue mood now.... =S

Well, since the bf and I moved to Setapak, we hardly go for date as I was so busy with my internship. Totally worn out and all I wanna do during the weekend is nothing but.............

Seriously, my best activity for weekend is just to be at home, having some great time surfing the internet, watching my favorite Running Men, and most of all, to hop on my bed whenever I want to! Isn't that the best weekend ever? Well, at least to me, LOL!

So last Friday, the bf and I went for a date after work. Headed to Rendezvous Steak Garden in Kampung Pandan for a proper date and I really have to say I'm so in love with the environment there!

This is how their entrance looks like, full with greeny decos.

Little fountain next to the entrance, further lighten up the cozy environment there.

The ambience there is indeed a perfect place for a date. You could either choose to sit at the opened air area where you could enjoy the night breeze, or roof top covered area.

Roof top covered area could be quite stuffy when the weather is hot. You wouldn't want to have your meal being all sweaty and grumpy right? So if it's not raining, go for the opened air.

The interior of the restaurant is nicely decorated with details such as classic lamp post, lots of greeny swirling around the post and ceiling, and bird cages that turned into lights, cute right?

Look at the crowd, it was almost full house when we got there.

Why am I so in love with the environment there then?

Well, because the actual lighting in the restaurant is dimmer like this.

Yup the real lighting is something like this, very very dim, and it's so romantic for a date with your love one!

Another top up is the background music! They plays classical music or English oldies OMG definitely my preference! I'm actually hating restaurant that plays unmatch background music, best example is Sushi Zanmai, Japanese restaurant playing English hits songs, like seriously?! I totally don't get the sense.

The only problem with the dim light is reading the menu. It's not totally dark and unreadable lah, but it's a challenge to read the menu clearly, especially the pictures of the food.

And oh, a real challenge in photo shooting the food.

Forget about flash, the whole lighting in the restaurant is so dim, imagine what a flash from camera would do. Yeah, all eyes on you.

So what did we ordered? =D

Fried Cheesy Chicken @ RM14.90

I ordered this fried chicken with stuffed cheese. Asked the bf to order this at first, I could order Fish & Chips, then we can share. But at last he insisted on Fried Chicken without cheese. *rolleyes

And it turned out that my Cheesy Fried Chicken taste a lot nicer! Hiak hiak hiak~~! I was planning to order Lamb Shank before going there, then the bf forgot to draw money, and my wallet left only RM30 after topping up my Touch'n'Go. I was like, my god, why so potong steam one!

So in the end we got to plan our order for not being lack of cash to pay later on, duh!

But escargot is a must!

Cheesy Escargot @ RM12.80 (Half Dozen)

Love this to the max!!! My first and only try on escargot is at Rendezvous, so I didn't know how the other escargot might taste, maybe better, but trust me, this one is real good!

Mushroom Soup @ RM5.80

Order a mushroom soup, which comes with a bun, dip the bun into the escargot cheesy gravy. My god, HEAVEN!!! And their mushroom soup is rich and thick, love it!

Coleslaw @ RM6.80

Coleslaw was rather expensive for the tiny portion. Ordered it because I'm afraid the Cheesy Fried Chicken would be too queasy, hahaha. The taste was okay overall, funny is that the coleslaw made me feel queasy instead of the cheese. Duh!

Fried Chicken Chop @ RM13.80

The taste is somewhat the same as the Cheesy Fried Chicken, just that it's without cheese. But the portion is slightly little. Better to order the Cheesy Fried Chicken.

The bf ordered sweet drinks as usual. Me, iced water, bahaha!

I keep introducing this place to my friends, haha, for someone picky like me, it's rare for me to comment a restaurant or food being nice, what's more delicious! So try it yourself!

Heard that the cheesy fondue is worth trying as well. No worries, I would definitely return to try on their other menus. Hee~~

Rendezvous Steak Garden

14, Jln. Kampung Pandan, 55100 Kuala Lumpur

Rating:
Ambience - 4/5
Service - 4/5
Pricing - 4/5
Food - 5/5

p.s. Be prepared before you use their washroom, the floor is super wet, and the upkeep is totally worst. Other than that, it's a real nice restaurant you wouldn't want to miss!

Keywords: rendezvous steak garden, kampung pandan, cheesy fried chicken

Kuching Trip - Day 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:27:00 +0000

Trip to Kuching would be a waste if you didn't go further for local tourist attraction but to just walk around the waterfront. Therefore, on our second day in Kuching, we hired a driver again to bring us touring around the town. The rate charged was RM280 for 8 hours, with a 7-seater Toyota Unser. We got the driver's contact from the super nice lady boss of GW Furama Hotel.

So, first place we went was the Sarawak Museum located approximately 2km away from the Waterfront. It was actually within walking distance from our hotel, you may exclude it from your list so that you could make use of the driver you hired to go somewhere further.

Googled the info about the museum and it was claimed to be the best museum in South East Asia. Honestly speaking, I find it normal and kinda boring. Ok, maybe all museums are boring after all.

The ground floor of the museum holds the natural history collection and specimens of Sarawak fauna - reptiles, mammals, birds, etc, all expertly prepared and mounted for display. The west wing of the museum houses Shell exhibition - petroleum industries of Sarawak.

The first floor displays exhibits of ethnographic artifacts such as models of longhouses of the various ethnic groups in Sarawak, musical instruments, various kinds of fish and animal traps, handicrafts, models of boats and others.

Heard the lady boss of our hotel said that the skulls displayed in the museums are real human skull hunted by the headhunter in the old times. I doubt that at first, but to think again, it's a museum, could be real OMG! Then mum said she had goosebumps walking in the displayed long house, so they are real damn it.

Spent only 1 hour touring the museum, they have another Petrosains Museum and Art Gallery next to the main building we entered, but daddy was bored of the artifacts and opted to see the Orang Utan instead, duh!

So there we were, Semenggoh Wildlife Centre, to see the Orang Utan, LOL...

The Semenggoh Wildlife Centre was established in 1975 to care for wild animals which have either been found injured in the forest, orphaned, or were previously kept as illegal pets. The centre is situated within the boundaries of the Semenggoh Nature Reserve, approximately 24 km from Kuching.

It was raining but stopped when we reached, so you could see the steam from the tar, it's like we're in some high up mountain with the mist, no?

We had to walk down the slope to reach the Orang Utan's feeding platform. Then daddy was smoking and we were like, oh come on, smoking in this nature forest like seriously? Then aunt made a joke teasing dad, "Now I can't tell is it the steam from the tar or your cigarette's smoke!". LOL...

The best time to visit Semenggoh is during the morning and afternoon feeding sessions when there is a good chance of seeing semi-wild orang utan returning to the Centre for a free meal. Feeding takes place between 9.00-10.00am and between 3.00-3.30 pm.

We reached there around 2.30pm, just nice!

By the time we reach the platform, a staff hurried us to go straight to the feeding area cause Richie, the leader of the orang utan tribe was already there.

There he was. The ranger reminded everyone to stay silent and put our phone into silent mode as well. You won't know when the orang utan would get annoyed, especially Richie, who had once threw heavy object to the crowd. @@

I was using only my digital camera, so couldn't get a clearer view of Richie. Here's a better one from Google, LOL....

The ranger said we were lucky cause Richie had not come out for the last 2 days, tourist visited during the last 2 days could only see tiny orang utan and Richie had no where to be seen.

After Richie left, we were brought further 200 meters into the wild to another feeding platform. There, we had the chance to experience short distance jungle trekking into the real nature woods. You could hear the silent of the nature and smell various wild animal's poop as well. LOL!

I was hoping to see this actually..........

But by the time we reached, we only saw this....

So altogether we saw only like less than 5 orang utans. Haha, couldn't blame anyone also, the orang utans are wild in this wildlife centre, they are free to come and go at their ease, so the rangers themselves couldn't assure you to see orang utan as you wish.

But, our trip was still worthwhile after all, at least we get to see Richie! I would be disappointed max if I were to come the day before where Richie was no where to be seen.

Group pic with the "Richie" before we left, haha!

Next spot was the Friendship Park or Taman Sahabat in Malay. Huge Zheng Ho Statue is viewable at this Friendship Park and it is created for the commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Malaysia-China diplomatic relations.

Zheng He was an admiral & explorer of Ming Dynasty of ancient China who visited Malaysia very long time ago. He was said to have started the world’s first biggest naval expedition in the 1405, about a century ahead of Christopher Columbus. Zheng Ho escorted a contingent of 500 court maidens together with a princess called Hang Li Po, to marry the Sultan Mansur Syah of Malacca. They eventually settled in Bukit Cina in Malacca. The male and female descendants of these people from mixed marriages with the local natives are known today as the Baba and Nyonya respectively.

Just my parents being a lovey dovey in front of the Zheng Ho statue, LOL...

Ship to resemble the exploration of Zheng Ho in the past.

A brief history of Zheng Ho's exploration and the origin of today's Baba and Nyonya.

Statue of various states in Malaysia.

My hometown, Kelantan, I have no idea why it is known as the Land of Lighting, tried to Google but found nonsense, so whatever, LOL.

Sis happily posted on the cute bench. Guess it resembles the diplomatic relation between the Chinese and Malay as well, cause there's orang utan on one side and panda on the other.

Pretty Chinese landmark at the end of the park. The building was locked so we could only tour around it. No sure what is inside though.

Best for photo shooting!

Chinese fan we bought from the Waterfront souvenir shops the other day cause the weather was way too hot. Serve its purpose just nice, haha!

Mum and dad's going to Beijing next year, so they said make this picture as a preview of their Beijing trip first, LMAO!

Chinese pavilion next to the previous building.

Daddy came out with his childhood idea and made the rest of us post like this, haha!

Then he spotted grandma's name and went all excited for another pic.

Had a hard time editing this pic though, cause the sun was right behind and you definitely know what I mean if you love taking photograph.

Another pavilion and I made mum sit on the hot burning rock for a shoot, haha!

The aunt and pretty cousins.

Was suppose to head to Satok Sunday Market after the Friendship Park, but the sky was getting dark so we decided to look for the Cat Statue for a photograph before heading to the market.

Was kinda disappointed with the ugly cat actually. OMG is this the trademark of Kuching? Or have we spotted the wrong cat?

We actually spotted another cat statue before this white color cat, like the pic below...

But it looks so dirty and old. Then aunt asked the driver, "Are you sure this is the right statue? Ini kucing kurap ke?". >____< No offence to Sarawak people, but I have to say I'm kinda disappointed cause I was indeed expecting a nicer statue. After all it's the main trademark for Kuching, no?

Then we headed to Satok's Sunday Market. The market was operating from Saturday morning to Sunday morning, hence the name Sunday Market. Again, I was expecting it to be a heaven of all local handicraft and food etc, was all prepared to spent some monies there already since we were going back to KL the next day.

When we finally reached, I was awed with its huge market seriously.

But when we start walking from one vendor to another, I was like, "Dad, where are the handicraft vendor you mentioned?!".

The whole market was actually a wet market selling raw ingredients like the normal pasar selling meats vege those. Haha, you could really tell how cheated I felt damn it. I thought it would be like Connought Pasar Malam (Night market located in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur) that kind of market, who know it's a real wet market. *faint*

We thought we could spent hours there and hence we asked the driver to find her own activities. Who know we ended up spending like less than an hour only and called the driver to fetch us for dinner instead. Ahhhhhhh the frustration and disappointment I had, I was like a peevish little kid feeling so much cheated.

So the last activity we had that night was a seafood dinner at Top Spot Food Court.

As its name goes, it is a food court with all stalls selling seafood. So this is the perfect place for seafood lover, don't expect to find Char Siu Fan, Char Kueh Tiaw those, LOL!

The driver recommended this stall number 25. So we went and ordered Steamed Fish, Kam Heong Crab, Spicy Balitong (a type of shell), Kang Kung Belacan, and Paku Salad (an edible fern). For 8 of us, it cost RM120. We were kinda surprised indeed. Though we didn't order too much normally pricey seafood, but to have crab for 8 pax with the price RM120 was so much cheap, no?

Now most important, the taste. I was not awed by the taste seriously, found it normal and below average. Still prefer the authentic Thai's in my hometown, LOL. Once you tried Thai's Keng Som Steamed Fish, other steamed fish would never satisfy you anymore. As for the Kam Heong Crab, my mum's better. No joke. @___@

Maybe should try other stall next time, if I have the chance. And this time, I will surely go wild and order all the seafood!!! We were kinda afraid it would be too expensive so we go ease on the menu. Only if we knew it would be that cheap, ORDER ALL THE SEAFOOD! Maybe the lobsters!! They look so tempting OMG!

It was just nice 8pm when we finally back to hotel. Gotta make sure our RM280 are well spent for every penny, haha!

Planned to head out for a bar nearby our hotel at first. Again daddy don't wanna spent so we ended up buying beer from the groceries store next to our hotel.

Heineken for dad and Tiger for me. Mum couldn't drink, so we got her a bottle of 100 plus, ROFL!!

The next day, we went for breakfast (yes nothing else but kolok meeeeeee), and then last minute shopping at Waterfront again. Was having our breakfast when I had the sudden thought to buy a bamboo wind chime. Told dad and he felt the same, haha, so we went hunting for wind chime at the Waterfront later on.

The only thing I got for myself throughout the whole Sarawak trip. Was looking from one shop to another, searching for the perfect tune I wanted. Till I finally found mine and dad happened to found his in the same shop as well.

Mad love mad love!

View from Kuching International Airport. The terminal is just behind the building.

Pale blue sky with the cotton clouds.

The sky was way too pretty that day, can't stop snaping pic throughout the 2 hours flight.

Posted this pic in my Facebook with the caption, "Perhimpunan awan", mind the pun!! Perhimpunan means gathering in Malay, and awan means cloud. There's a phrase perhimpunan awam in Malay where awaM means public. So I made "public gathering" sounds like "cloud gathering", LOL.

Watching sunset from the sky, woooooo! And that end my post on Kuching Trip!!!

It was just a short and simple trip, with limited transportation. Wouldn't say it was totally boring, I guess with the ease of transportation to go whenever we want would made the trip even fun.

3 more weeks before my final semester start, I shall enjoy my rotting time at home. Woots~!

keywords: kuching, sarawak, semenggoh wildlife centre, orang utan, richie, friendship park, zheng ho, satok, sunday market, top spot, seafood, food court

Kuching Trip - Day 1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:15:00 +0000

It'd been nearly one month after I ended my internship in Crowe Horwath. To be honest, I seriously miss my working life. @__@

Yahhh I know every working adult would be like "you will regret saying that after you graduated blah blah blah...", but I'm pretty sure nobody knows it better than me. I seriously hate studying, only if I could be less bothered bout the result, then yeah, maybe I will enjoy being a "carefree" student. But the fact is, my result is everything to me. So, student's life suck.

Went back hometown right after my internship ended and I spent the first week hiding myself at home rushing my internship final report. MINIMUM 75 pages my god, I cracked my head to elaborate as detailed as I could and I reached only 65 pages. Then I gave up. I was thinking to force myself writing further would definitely means writing nonsense and repeating the same thing over and over again, to which I think no point doing so at all. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh hopefully my lecturer would go for quality rather than quantity. *finger crossed*

Then daddy was supposed to go for outstation work in Kuching, so I was like, my god I should tag along no matter what. Else wasted my holiday! I have like almost 2 months of holiday before my final semester begin. Had been dying to go for an oversea trip instead, but the bf is working, and I am broke to death. *BIG SIGH*

So, Kuching better than nothing! (omg it rhymes~)

The whole family followed at last, except my elder sister, LOL! There were 9 of us. 5 of them were my family members including me, 2 of dad's Malay worker, my aunt and her daughter.

So it was actually a working trip which turned into a family trip. Haha!

Unlimited pics taken while waiting for our flight, just to kill the time, LOL....

Camera 360 seriously FTW!

Approximate 2 hours flight and we finally reached Kuching International Airport. The sky had already dark when we reached the airport. Hence we waited for the driver to fetch us for dinner before checking in our hotel.

Had a simple dinner at a restaurant located in Jalan Khoo Hun Yeang, ordered some Chinese dishes and the taste was just below average. @__@

Unpack my luggage after we checked in our hotel and this was what I saw. Thanks to Air Asia clumsy and rough crews, my perfume freaking broke in my luggage. Fine glasses all over my clothes and even my bra! God damn it, spent like hours cleaning and checking every single piece of my cloth to make sure there's no more fine glasses. Oh, thanks to them I don't have to wear perfume throughout my whole trip, cause they were all poured over my clothes anyway fuck...! Even the whole room smell freaking nice, haha!

But I quickly got over it though I was kinda annoyed to lose my perfume that I used only quarter GOD DAMN IT. Luckily I did bring another perfume, the Victoria Secret that I'd thrown without noticing its label and later picked it up from the bin again, haha!

Another reason was because it's Mid Autumn that day itself~! So yeah I got over the fuss on my inexpensive perfume and quickly washed up before the aunt and cousin came over.

Then aunt came over with mooncakes she brought from KL, haha, I was like, wooooooo awesome!

Pillow talk time after that~!

Couldn't sleep well for the first night, I woke up in the next morning terrified by a nightmare. Dreamed about a ghost that keep following me whenever I go, haha!!

Our hotel, GW Furama Hotel, located in Jalan Green Hill. Rented only a budget hotel cause there is no point spending that extra monies just for a place to pass the night, haha. The hotel is conveniently located near to the Waterfront and Sarawak Museum, which you could easily walk there. By the way, the interior of the hotel is kinda old, but at least it's clean. I think they could have repaint their wall and opt for a blank bed cover instead of old fashioned floral prints. At least it looks cleaner, I always prefer hotel bedsheet to be blank instead of printed. Then you could easily tell whether there's any stain on it right or not?

Nevertheless, the lady boss was super nice and friendly, she had been super helpful in assisting us to plan for our trip and not to forget, the transportation!

If you ever been to Kuching, you would definitely know the transportation cost could cause you a nightmare. There are plenty taxi around the hotel areas, but the rate is totally insane. RM15 flat rate wtf. It has a limit of maximum don't know how many kilometers within the town for that rate, but the minimum distance is nil. Meaning it's RM15 even for just 1 kilometers. The reason? Because local people don't take taxi, their customers are made of only tourist, hence the price killing. STUPID!

So the next day, the rest of us went out our own to the Waterfront for some handcraft and souvenirs shopping since daddy had to work. Woke up so late that when we finally went down for our late breakfast, daddy appeared from no where claiming he had finished his work, LOL! But he didn't join us ladies for shopping and went back hotel for a break instead.

Sarawak Kolok Mee for breakfast. I wouldn't say it tastes awful, but I hate the ratio of the ingredients and the noodles so much! Tried from different stalls but they were all the same. You have a whole lot of noodles but only tiny pieces of Char Siew (roasted pork) for the topping. No soup no wantan (meat dumpling), only noodles. I feel like eating plain noodles seriously.

By the way, I bought some raw kolok mee home. Cooked it my way (still serving it white like Sarawak style), and I feel mine better wtf, hahaha!

After breakfast, shopping time~!

The handcraft hot spots are actually a row of shoplots along the Main Bazaar road, local people call it Waterfront since there's a river located right next to it. It was only around 10 minutes walking distance from our hotel. You could find all kind of local handicraft items such as Sarawak batik, the handmade beads jewelries and many more. Spent hours shopping and I bought nothing but a Chinese fan, HAHA! The weather was super duper hot my god! Mummy bought a few Sarawak's famous kek lapis (layered cake) for the relatives as souvenirs.

They were cut into smaller pieces like this and you could taste any flavor before purchasing. There are 2 types of kek lapis, dry and moist. Dry one is made of margarine, and moist one is made of butter.

They were sold in a block like these. Moist one cost RM15 each, and dry one cost RM10 each. My recommendation, go for the moist one. The famous brand of kek lapis in Kuching is actually from Dayang Salhah, where you have to cross the river to get to the shop. Heard from our driver that the owner of Dayang Salhah is like a millionaire already now, so daddy was like, then why should we make a millionaire richer? He said the cakes are surely machine made due to its high demand so we should just buy from smaller vendor for handmade one instead. Make sense I guess.

It was around 4pm when we finally done our shopping and decided to call it a day. The weather was way too hot so we decided to take a break alongside the river for some cold beverage before heading back to the hotel.

My two younger sis. Nothing much like me I know, LOL.

Aunt and my cousin, Elaura.

Went back hotel for a quick wash up, and of course to enjoy the air conditioner before heading out again. Then we went to Swinburne University around 5.30 to fetch my another cousin who is studying there. Hired the hotel's driver this time round since it was way too far to walk there.

It was drizzling when we reached hence we ended up waiting the cousin at her hostel lobby. The driver left since we planned to walk to The Spring Mall which located only within walking distance from Swinburne University. Then the rain never stop and we ended up walking there through the rain, duh!

The biggest mall in Sarawak. Didn't really shop around, cause shopping with the elderly ain't fun, LOL. By the way the main purpose for us to get there despite the rain was actually because of the chocolate. Cousin said there's a chocolate store selling a numbers of chocolate not available in our market, Penisular's market I mean. Spent tens buying chocolate for the bf at last, duh~!

The driver came to pick us up like an hour later and then we headed for our dinner. It was a normal resturant somewhere in the town, couldn't recall the name sorry. The dinner was so-so, hence no need mention much, haha.

Woooo got back to the hotel after that and I immediately jumped on my bed to enjoy the air cond! The weather was extremely hot my god, my skin got so dried and the skin around my nose tip apparently peeled off, imagine that. I went totally make up free cause I knew it would get all sweaty and sticky walking around the town for the whole day. Thought it would be better for my skin where I could clean it with some wet tissue from time to time. Guess I was terribly wrong. Luckily I did bring some moisturizing essence along with me, samples from The Face Shop, haha cheapo damn it.

Okay, that's my first day in Kuching, will come back with the Day 2 and Day 3 post soon. Stay tuned~!

keywords: kuching trip, place of interest in kuching, kuching's local attraction, kuching waterfront, GW Furama Hotel, sarawak trip, sarawak place of interest, sarawak attraction, sarawak kolok mee

Celcius Babes Gathering, Again!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 17:09:00 +0000

You know it's true when people say you've grown up when you find yourself having lesser and lesser friends.

Well maybe there's different story for the others but I'm for sure the one that grown up with lesser friends. Of course there're plenty of friends you could call if you consider those hello-bye friends, but when it comes to a friend that you could count on or the first that you could think of for whatever occasion, even one would be more than enough.

Speaking about friends, Celsius Babes had indeed occupied the deepest position in my heart, and my soul wtf, haha... Honestly speaking, studying in TARC for my A Level was like the best part in my life so far. I'm so glad to get to know my precious Celsius Babes that at times I could really get emo all sudden regretting that we are now separated for own good.

They are my Celsius Babes, if you wonder. Actually there are six of us, another two couldn't make it this time. Guess I've explained in my previous post why do we call ourselves Celsius Babes, well, it's rather silly I'm pretty sure you gonna face palm, haha!

We were talking about a Taiwanese pop group back then which was known as Fahrenheit. We was like why would they call themselves Fahrenheit, like how could this term "Fahrenheit" possibly came across their mind. And out of sudden, one of us suggested we call ourselves Celsius then.

It was just a plain joke at first, till we finally make use of it and freaking stick to it till now, haha!

Yes, Celsius Babes we are!

Annie (pretty babe in red) was finally back in Malaysia after finishing her last paper in Hong Kong recently. We have gathered so many times but she's the only one that couldn't make it most of the time. Even Joon (not in pic) who was studying in UK managed to join us twice!

My last time hanging out with Annie was like 3 years back, when Celsius Babes made a trip to my hometown, Kelantan. She'd changed a lot indeed, such a pretty lady now!

*Clear throat* Please excuse us, you know it's totally normal, LOL.

Selca is the best seriously, no one know better than yourself how you could look pretty in all your pic.

Or how to look ugly without being..... ugly. HAHA!

This pic is real stupid, in the sense that Annie's bf helped us to capture, but with the screen facing us, so he's like a tripod stand holding the camera for us, haha!

Went to Delicious again for our tea time. Had our lunch in Sushi Zanmai instead but everyone was starving so no one bother to take any pics.

They have this Ramadan promotion that last till 4pm only, and we managed to order ours at 3.55pm, duh!

Frosty Lime and Lemon Grass Juice @ RM6.90 (Normal price @ RM10.90)

Was kinda hesitating whether to order or not at first, I was wondering how would it tastes cause speaking bout lemon grass I could only think of Tom Yam, haha!

The taste turned out quite good actually, it's like normal lime juice but with strong lemon grass scent, very fresh and cooling.

Quiche Lorraine with Beef Bacon and Sundried Tomatoes @ RM18.90

Tried their quiche and it was so yummeh! My first try of quiche was actually at The Bakery in Genting. Fall in love with quiche right after that. But I must say, the one in Delicious is indeed better.

Annie pronounced it as "kuinch", as in "quick" with the 'ch' sound. Then her American bf immediately corrected her that it's supposed to be pronounced as 'keech' not 'quich'...

Then I was like all nasty trying to start a debate by asking him how he pronounces 'quill'. Of course it's pronounce with the 'quick' sound right.

Then I was like, "So why must quiche be 'keech' not 'quich'?". HAHA!!

Annie was like super excited that I raised this question OMG, and there go the chaos correcting who's right and wrong.

Of course it's 'keech'.

So as a conclusion, quiche is freaking yummeh~!

Coconut Cake with Fresh Coconut Filling covered with Hawaiian

Coconut Shavings @ RM12.90

Planned to order our favorite cake but it was not available that day. So we opted for the last piece of Coconut Cake on the counter, considering that it's almost sold out so it must be nice, LOL...

And it'd indeed turned out so nice! The taste was not too sweet, it was just nice and the coconut scent was very refreshing.

Very soft and fine cake with coconut filling, definitely recommended if you are not into overly sweet dessert like me!

Chocolate Brownie with Chocolate Sauce & Vanilla Ice Cream @ RM10.90

(Normal price @ RM13.90)

This item was on Ramadan promotion as well. Ordered it because there are limited choices left on the counter, plus it was on promition, why not right?

I wouldn't say it tasted bad, but definitely not to my liking. Told ya I hate overly sweet dessert, it makes me feel disgusted pretty fast. You can really tell how sweet it is by just looking at it.

Had a great time chit-chatting after not seeing each other so long. Kinda sad that Joon was not there with us.

Unlimited photos taken, we just couldn't have enough of it.

Then we thought of something silly again, "fitting" Joon in our picture. And there we go, group picture with everyone of us!

My bf and Annie's waiting patiently outside while we spent our own sweet time in the toilet, haha!

Passed by Fullhouse and we tumpang their beautiful deco for pics again, haha!

And then group pic before we left!!

Annie's American Chinese on the left, woots~!

Joon's coming back at the end of the month, stay tuned for another Celsius Babes gathering!!!

Am I That Stress?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:35:00 +0000

Writing this in the office again, currently not assigned, the seniors are all busy doing their stuff, even asking for jobs from them could burden them, no joke. Guess they had assigned whatever the interns could do and left those head cracking work done either we interns are not capable or experienced enough to do. Too guilty to watch movie or publicly surf websites so I'd decided to blog. At least I could look half busy typing on the keyboards, than to lay back and scroll my mouse, right right right? Shhhh~~~

I'm feeling so unhealthy lately. No I'm not diagnosed with any severe disease yet touch wood. Like one or one year plus ago, I've been having heartburn so often that I thought I could have suffering severe heart problems and collapse anytime wtf. Told my mum bout this and like always, she never failed to scare me.

She was like, "Did your hand feels numb frequently?" and so on, I was like, NO..... Then I decided to seek for the expert than to be frighten by my mum, LOL!

Consulted the panel clinic in my Uni, after some simple check up, doctor said it was not my heart that cause the pain, it was known as acid reflux where it burns the end of my esophagus that connect to the stomach and lead to the pain at the chest. So I asked him why every time I burped it got better, he said it's because of acidic gas in my stomach. I was like, sure or not? LOL....

Then he mentioned something that put me into silent for a while. Acidic gas in the stomach are often caused by stress and anger as well. Time where you feel tension, stressed out, nervous or mad about something, it could lead to excessive acid in the stomach. So I was advised to handle my emotion and not to over stress myself.

That was the first time, someone claimed that I was stressed out.

Mummy asked for the result when I came home, I answer, "Stressed", and she was speechless. I was speechless as well.

Then reconsider again and again, I think what the doctor said actually make sense. Throughout the period of having frequent chest pain, I was preparing for my final exam and stress out like shit mainly because I couldn't focus on my studies. Feel so sick of studying my brain rejects whatever that I tried to put in.

I wasn't really aware I'm stressed out until I visited the doctor seriously.

Not long after, the skin problem started.

It started with my fingers, where the skin in that particular area got so dry that it harden and cracked. Cracked like a fresh cut on my finger and it bleed. My friends who noticed once asked how I cut my finger and I was like, it cracks, not a cut.

It was a minor one at first, just the same finger. But now, it got serious and I have it on my fingers (3 fingers), elbows, knees, and ankle, and scalp.

Honestly speaking, I was totally freaked out.

Had been visiting few clinics and all I got was just cream after cream to put on. It's been more than a year now and those cream given by the different doctor didn't help.

It cracks, 2 or 3 days later it heals. The next day, it got dry and harden. Few days later, it cracks again. It's totally driving me crazy. Imagine a fresh cut that could heal in just 2 to 3 days. I seriously got no idea wthell is wrong with my skin.

The bf had always scare me that I got skin disease.

So at last I went to see the specialist. Glad that uncle helped me to get an appointment at Selayang Hospital, save a lot of time and the hassle to pre-book. So I finally know what is wrong with my skin, it's known as Psoriasis.

(Don't be freaked out by the picture in the link, mine is not that serious but just dry and cracked skins at the fingers and elbow.)

And guess what lead to this?

STRESS!!!!!!!!!

I was like, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!

I don't feel myself being that stress seriously, totally clueless!

Guess the doctor was trying to be as clear and simple as he could, he said my antibody is fighting against the good bacteria and hence lead to the skin disorder. Of course I asked why, he said he would be more that glad to know why as well, duh!!!

But it's confirmed that it's neither infection nor allergy. So it won't spread to people around me, thank god...

Then mummy asked what's the result again, and again, I answered "Stressed!". This time she remained silent again, bahaha!

Then I tried to Google, and what the doctor said is somehow true, about the antibody fighting the bacteria stuff. And it's true that the reason leading to this is not known.

Causes of Psoriasis (sources from Wikipedia)

The cause of psoriasis is not fully understood. There are two main hypotheses about the process that occurs in the development of the disease. The first considers psoriasis as primarily a disorder of excessive growth and reproduction of skin cells. The problem is simply seen as a fault of the epidermis and its keratinocytes. The second hypothesis sees the disease as being an immune-mediated disorder in which the excessive reproduction of skin cells is secondary to factors produced by the immune system. T cells (which normally help protect the body against infection) become active, migrate to the dermis and trigger the release of cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-alpha TNFα, in particular) which cause inflammation and the rapid production of skin cells. It is not known what initiates the activation of the T cells.

Nevertheless, the first outbreak is sometimes reported following stress (physical and mental), skin injury, and streptococcal infection. Conditions that have been reported as accompanying a worsening of the disease include infections, stress, and changes in season and climate. Certain medicines, including lithium salt, beta blockers and the antimalarial drug chloroquine have been reported to trigger or aggravate the disease. Excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and obesity may exacerbate psoriasis or make the management of the condition difficult or perhaps these comorbidities are effects rather than causes.[30][31] Hairspray, some face creams and hand lotions, can also cause an outbreak of psoriasis.[citation needed] In 1975, Stefania Jablonska and collaborators advanced a new theory that special antibodies tend to break through into the lower layers of the skin and set up a complex series of chemical reactions.[32]

Daddy made a joke on me that day, sis was saying something I couldn't recall, and daddy went, "Careful talking to her, later her chest got tight and stressed out." HAHA WTF!!!

Then one more thing, I found out I changed my sleeping position lately. I'm a freefaller now, like this....

The bf even asked why am I sleeping like this lately, there are a numbers of time he woke me up at night thought that I could have suffocate myself as I slept facing the pillow totally. Haha! I remember I once woke up looking at him and answered, "I can breath". Hahahahaha!

Then most of the night, I will sleep facing down like this, I don't why either, it was said to be the most uncomfortable among all the common positions.

Normally there are 6 common sleeping position like these:

I Googled and here's what your sleeping position says about you.

Freefaller

With the whole body outstretched flat on their stomach, arms at right angles, hands gripping the pillow as though holding on for dear life, physically the least comfortable position to sleep for most adults.

Freefallers tend to feel like life happens around them and they are just hanging on for the ride, which can make them feel like they're not in control of what happens. Freefallers can wake up feeling like they still have things leftover from the previous day, which can make them feel over anxious about getting things done today.

They can be thin-skinned underneath their outgoing exteriors and dislike criticism or extreme situations. Sleeping on your stomach is good for digestion according to Idzikowski. People who regularly sleep prone are stubborn, persistent and goal-oriented. According to Patti Wood, M.A., a body language expert, if you've suddenly begun to sleep in this position, there might be something you're afraid of.

If you sleep face down all night, you are likely to be narrow-minded. You are probably self-centered and always force people to comply with your own needs. You are also likely to be reckless and desultory.

Freefallers need to take control of each new day and deal with things one step at a time until you are happy to move to the next step. You will then be more motivated and inspired, creating opportunities for you be the boss of your own destiny.

I'm not quite sure what I'm afraid of yet.. Hmmm......

Guess I should go wild to de-stressed. Actually I'm not quite sure am I that stress, especially now I'm doing my interns, leaving the textbook for months should have lessen the stress.

I don't know.....

Keywords:

stress, psoriasis, cracked skin, dry skin, sleeping position, freefall, chest pain, acid reflux

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant, KL Festival City

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:12:00 +0000

Woots~ another Korean food review!

This is my second Korean restaurant after Ko Hyang @ One Utama.

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant

It's located in KL Festival City Mall, Setapak. Setapak had changed a lot in recent years, especially in Danau Kota. During my A Level 5 yeas back, the condo I used to stay was the most new condo in that area. The surrounding area are either bushes or covered up area for construction that have yet started. No malls, no shop lots, basically nothing except for an Indian temple and a Malay school nearby.

The bf and I used to ride motocycle to settle our meal, LOL, mostly Genting Klang area or Wangsa Maju. Then after my graduation from Tarc, my younger sis went there for her Diploma. After only one year apart, row by row of new shop lots were built, 3 new condos right behind my previous condo, and a freaking mall next to it!!!

I was like...................

Why so unfair one??!!

Now this area is like damn convenient, every necessity you need are basically all here. Food for sure no problem, Chinese, Indian, Malay, even Middle East, semua ada (all available)... With a mall nearly all you need from groceries to everyday's shopping are all there. There's even a hospital next to the condo, yes, no joke! Freaking convenient.

Off topic already sorry, bahaha...

Yah back to the Korean restaurant, Bee Won. The decoration of the restaurant is just normal I would say, and the restaurant itself is quite small after all, hence the seats are mostly fully occupied, which mean during peak hours you either choose to queue, or leave. LOL...

Their tables are all equipped with this BBQ stove (I don't know the exact name sorry) should you order Korean BBQ. They have beef and chicken, pork not sure. I didn't order any meats cause I went there for breakfast. Korean BBQ for breakfast is like a bit too heavy, no?

Chicken Jung Sik @ RM15.00

(Set with rice & side dishes)

The taste are quite good actually, like our curry chicken, but the taste are more light as compared to ours. The portion is huge, wouldn't say it's huge enough for 2, unless both of you have real small appetite, but it's huge enough to full you up, very very full that kind, yah. I was starving when I entered the restaurant, then I left with bloated tummy, LOL.

Side dishes, a must have for all Korean restaurant! They served only 4 side dishes including kimchi. Glad that all of them are nice. The middle one was actually potato and fruits salad, look a bit disgusting and I was hesitating whether to try or not at first, duh! But it turned out to be quite good, I didn't refill any of the side dishes, the chicken and rice had really bloated me up.

Ordinary kimchi, nothing special.

Pork Rice Set @ RM20.00

(not exact name as in menu)

Sorry I couldn't recall the name of this dishes. The set is more or less the same as mine, just that it has another dish in it which is the fried fish. So in other meaning, the fish cost RM5.00, LOL...

The pork are stir fried and taste somewhat like curry to me as well... @____@

But then I think my Chicken Jung Sik had stronger taste and thicker gravy, and I personally like food with heavier taste. So I would go for the Chicken Jung Sik over this.

The RM5.00 fish, duh!! Other than that, the side dishes and the soup are just the same as mine.

Hmmm I actually went there for the second time after that, with my family. Treated them for a dinner, mummy love it a lot, and daddy took a few bite and gave up the whole plate. zZzZ

He ordered Octopus Fried Rice, and he said he was disgusted to finish it. I did't try so I can't judge. But I guess it wouldn't be that bad, it's just him disliking sticky rice and the kimchi stuff. =____=

Ah another thing, the service there is real suck. I think I would not go back there in short period. The workers there never greet you, ok la fine, I never expect the workers to welcome me like those expensive dine in place. There's this stupid male worker that would give you the 24 hours dark face, especially when you enter the restaurant after 9pm. Why? Because you gonna delay his off time that's why.

My first time there, it was only 9 something at night, surely before 9.30pm, and since their operating hour is till 10pm, I suppose there shouldn't be a problem to serve another customer right. And he looked at me with his super dark face and din't even bother to talk to me but just wave his hand meaning they are no more serving.

I was like, WTF, what shit attitude is that.

The time I brought my family there, the seats are all taken, and they never bother to approach you to serve you. I wouldn't mind if they ask me to wait, at least I know they are noticed of my presence right. But none of them approach us, they just ignore you, literally ignore you, not even eye contact!!!

Dad nearly left, luckily the owner came to me and said there was a seat inside. Wait, not that lucky after all. I should have left and find another option that suit dad's appetite. =___=

Ok before I end my post, a pic to remind you of my face, LOL!!!!!

Bye~!

Bee Won Korean B.B.Q Restaurant
KL Festival Mall, Setapak

Rating:
Ambience - 3/5
Service - 1/5
Pricing - 3/5
Food - 3/5

Extra tips: Their Bibimbap sucks as well, order at your own risk, LOL.

TTC Liquor Gathering @ The Beer Factory

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:16:00 +0000

*BIG YAWN*

I'm actually working in my office while writing this. Don't get me wrong, I'm just taking a short break after finishing all the tasks given to me okay.

Interns life are too "happening", haha, lots of works to do OMG, I would spent my weekend "nuah-ing" (lazying) at home and gosh my bed and my room feel like 10 times more comfy than normal, LOL...

Another side of having a good rest at home during the weekend literally means I'm actually losing my social life wtf. Since I first started my internship, I have not met any of my friends, not even a simple outing for a meal or what.

Mana boleh tahan (how to tolerate) right?

So I planned a liquor outing with my bunch of Table Tennis Club friends, LOL... Don't feel weird, I CANNOT play table tennis, duh, beginner level okay la. I joined because the bf joined and there's this senior which happen to be my secondary school classmate, so to cut short, I joined to get a position as a committee. BAHAHAHA... and I got a position as Assistant Treasurer. I did put efforts and did my part well lah of course, not for the sake of getting the position only.

There we go, our first liquor outing at The Beer Factory @ Sunway Giza. Not that kind of expensive liquor party like clubbing don't get me wrong. The thought of clubbing have not come to me, not until I earn my own income. So normal beer will do.

It's like bringing kids for alcohol, bahaha... 10 of us went that night and only half drink. Tiger was having a road show that night, so it was quite happening with the huge screen playing BPL live and emcee rocking the scene.

Planned to have a sit inside with rocking music but had to give up or else the 10 of us gonna shout like mad talking to each other. Would be great if there's only 3 or 4 of us, I mean for a sit inside.

Mad love this pic, though the bf looks like half drunken wtf. I mean he's not but I wonder why all his pic that night turned out like he was freaking drunk FHL.

Two kiddos that hardly take a sip. Add water somemore to dilute the alcohol I nearly faint OMG, just beer lah where got so easy to get drunk, duh....

The gays. Guess who's playing the gals role? BAHAHA!

The bf acting really weird that night, at some point I really wonder if he really get drunk or what. All these while he had never suggest or act to approach random girls for picture, and that night he was like hyper active keep asking the rest of the guy to join him for photo session with the pretty girls there.

I was like............ for real?

Not because I'm jealous lah please, just that I never seem him acting like this, seriously, never. And the pretty girl happen to be my A Level's classmate Chew Win aka Vivian, bahaha, I can't stop laughing OMG...

When I told the bf his response was like "OMG it's her? I cannot recognize, help me invite her for a pic lah!". Honestly speaking, I was kinda embarrassed wtf. =___=

And then still not satisfide and looked for another one.... =____=

Group photo before left, or should I say before changing venue for another chit chat, haha!

Cannot rememeber who requested for this, definitely not me, it's like secondary school pic hahaha OMG so paiseh we did it in the centre of the Giza mall wtf!

And girly pic with the kiddos, haha, I'm just 2 years older lahhhhh don't get me wrong.

Last pic, the gays both in checker top wthell.

Ok got to back to work. More updates soon, see ya!

Keywords: sunway giza, the beer factory, tiger, premier league

Ko Hyang Korean Country Delights, One Utama

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 04 May 2013 07:14:00 +0000

Pfftt my blog is dying..... again.

Was too busy with my work, internship to be precised, sigh~ I'm currently an intern in an audit firm, for a period of 6 months. Well, I wouldn't say the experience is bad, I'm actually quite enjoy it at certain point, especially some of the nice colleagues that could really made my every day, LOL...

But the workload, gosh...... I cannot imagine how insane would it be if I were to be a permanent audit staff. That kind of workload with that kind of pressure, well, only auditor knows. LOL!

Ok cut the craps. Here's some food review for Korean delights at Ko Hyang, One Utama Shopping Mall.

Spotted this Korean restaurant for quite some time already, but never bother to try cause all these while I'd been a loyal fans of Japanese food though I'm all crazy over Kpop, LOL.... Then I decided to give a try.

Their menu was kinda disappointing. I flipped through like 2 or 3 pages and then...... no more. Food choices are very limited I would say, and definitely leaving a bad impression for first timer like me.

Something good bout Korean food is their unlimited side dishes. So these are the side dishes I got, I don't really like it honestly speaking, din't even bother to refill, duh. Sorry for the blur pic, was not in mood to capture nice pic cause I was starving, LOL....

Dol Sot Bibimbap @ RM17.90

This is not my first time trying Bibimbap though this is my first Korean restaurant, my first try on Bibimbap was in a Japanese restaurant, weird right? I would rate Bibimbap in Ko Hyang 6/10 because I think the sauce taste didn't up to my expectation. I like the one in Japanese restaurant more, how ironic? =___=

The Bibimbap sauce, looks like chili sauce to me. zZz

And this is how it looks like after mixing all the ingredients including the sauce. Wouldn't say it is totally awful lah, normal I would say, nothing special.

BBQ Chicken (with rice) @ RM17.90

The bf ordered their BBQ chicken after struggling so hard to decide. Not because of too many choices, but too little choices and he felt like nothing suit his appetite, duh! The taste, normal also, my mum could cook that, I think I could too seriously. In fact I did cook something similar all these while.

So after all those were what I tried that day, I don't think I will go back to try the other dishes lah, since there are not much choices after all. Well, visit once and try it yourself, or if you did tried it before, let me know if I missed anything worth trying.

Rating:
Ambience - 2/5
Service - 3/5
Pricing - 3/5
Food - 3/5

Will I revisit? Hmmmm..... NO.

Keywords: korean food, ko hyang, bibimbap, one u, one utama

2NE1 LIVE IN MALAYSIA!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:47:00 +0000

I think the whole had definitely know I'm a huge fan of.............

Yes, 2NE1 that read as "to-anyone" or "twenty-one", which is name after the combination of 21st Century and New Evolution.

The four members include (from left) CL-The Baddest Female, the maknae (youngest in the group) Minzy, sweety pie Sandara Park (Dara), and the powerful vocal ever Park Bom.

I have been listening to their songs when I first started my A Level like 5 years ago, back then I was fallen into the song "Lollipop" which was their collaboration with another pop group of YG Entertainment - Big Bang. The song was so addictive that I started to search for more of their songs. That was exactly when I fallen into Big Bang as well.

Honestly speaking, I was listening to Big Bang and 2NE1 without knowing who are they and how they look like. I kept playing the whole album of them while doing my A Level and back then I always told the BF I like Top's rough vocal without knowing his name and his face, seriously!!!!

It was like years after only I bother to Google their face and to know every single one of them. That time I still don't know which one of them having the rough sound, till the BF very sien and Youtube their MV to show me, hahahaha, you see I don't even bother to watch their MV!!!

So when the youngster now been crazy over Big Bang after their latest album or even the song "Fantastic Baby", I was like, please, try to name me at least 10 of their previous album songs before you tell me how are you being such a huge fans of them.

Okay get back to 2NE1, they were here few days ago for their FIRST EVER LIVE PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!

YES YES YES finally my queens were here in MALAYSIA!!!! You know how much disappointed I was when their concert in Malaysia was cancelled? Yes they were suppose to perform in Malaysia last December as one of their New Evolution Global Tour. I went to queue that day in order to get the nicest seats, standing under the hot sun with an umbrella waiting for my turn. Was so excited when I was given the best seat ever for the category I bought, till the organizer last minute announced the cancellation of their concert. I was like, WHY?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a valid reason of cancellation was given, they just promised to refund the tickets. Lousy organizer..... I came home watching their live on Youtube everyday after that, until the BF cannot tahan and asked am I getting crazy over them till that stage, LOL!!!!

Then, the god heard my prayers maybe, they made Petronas brought 2NE1 in!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a 2-days concert, FREE ENTRANCE somemore!!!!!!!

Day 1 was on 22nd March, participated artists include Demi Lovato, U-Kiss and many others. My attention was only focused on Day 2, bahaha, apart of 2NE1, other huge stars include Backstreet Boys, Mizz Nina and so on.

Went to queue at 5pm, the exact time they said the gate to be opened to the public. Ended up waiting for one hour wtf, we were only allowed to enter around 6pm, that also after a huge chaos between the security and the public. I don't want to comment about that, just think the security could do a lot better than that.

Once getting through the gates, everyone start running like mad in order to secure the front place, haha, including me lah please, I was running like a pig with my heels somemore, haha!!! Got a real front place when the BF and I got in. Just right behind the fan zone, our view is something like this....

Consider damn front already lah, can see the real person performing, at that time only the DJ lah, also the emcees.

But then I was blocked by tall guys FML, can only see their head, and half of the screen!!!!! Thought its gonna be okay after that, then it started to be all packed and stuffy, like half an hour later, the emcees start talking and throwing this and that to the crowd, I mean merchandise like posters and CDs those lah.

One whole hour of nonsense talking and boring jokes till 7 something and there goes the prayer time. So everything was paused. I was so sien standing and waiting for 2 hours plus, getting so stuffed and seriously annoyed by the nonsense talking of the emcees.

Then another one hour would be the global Earth Hour, though they mentioned there would be special performance, I was like, confirm not 2NE1 or Backstreet Boys, so after hesitated for a while, I decided to leave. LOL!

Went into KLCC for dinner, I was like, phew~~~ I can finally breath!

Checked Twitter and there were rumors that 2NE1 will perform right after Earth Hour, so the BF and I went back to the concert. This time, we never bother to squeeze to the front, cause standing at the back the screen is even clearer and not blocked my peoples' heads!

I was at the red mark once I entered, was so near to the stage actually, but still got blocked. Fan zone was for those who bought merchandize from Petronas, spent RM150 then you got one free pass. Then after dinner, the BF and I stand at the blue spot, cause the stage have a super huge LED screen, so HD I rather stand at the back watching the screen than standing in front seeing people's head.

The super HD screen, thank god it was not those lousy mamak's lcd screen, LOL! Got free glow sticks from the staff when I entered after lunch, then when I was standing at the back, there was a bench that there were a Malay family standing on it to watch the show. There were three of them, parents and a little girl. I wanted to stand on that bench too, but I got no idea of how to approach them. So I "bribed" the little girl. I gave her one glow sticks, she was super happy and her parents keep thanking me. I was all cool and went "Ah it's ok it's ok, she can has it...."

A moment later, I asked, "Kak, boleh saya naik? Tak nampak kat bawah..." Then I was on the bench, can see the screen super clear, can even see the real person on the stage!!!! Bahahaha yes!

Rumors were not really accurate, after Earth Hour I was all nervous waiting for 2NE1, but local artists keep popping out and I was so disappointed everytime they came out. SORRY...................! You surely understand my feeling I know.... >___<

Then after Mizz Nina performed.... The screen showed, "Next Performance: 2NE1"... I screamed my lungs out WTF!

Then they played...

I go by the name CL of 2NE1~~
It's been a long time coming, but we're here now~~
And we about to set the roof for fire baby (Uh oh)~~
You better get yours cause I'm gettin' mine~~!!!

Eh eh~ eh eh eh~

eh eh~~~~

2NE1~~!

I was so excited they were like just in front of me performing and....... and....... I TEARED!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I never know I could come up to this stage, tearing when I saw them on stage performing, I was screaming so hard that time and then realized my eyes go blurry and watery, I even turned to the BF and asked are my make up coming off, haha!!!

First song was Fire, the second song of them I fallen into after Lollipop last time.

Next was Can't Nobody, a super rock song that blew up the stage!

Let's rock~~ just take it to the top~~~!!!

How to not be in love with them you tell me?!

Especially CL....

I was admiring her so much sometime I wished I were her, LOL!!! Compared to any other Kpop artist, she can really rock the stage like no others could, not even SNSD. No offense so Sones. Okay I know this is offensive, lol sorry. That type of charisma, I found in no one except her.

Third song was Ugly, before the emcees popped out to have a mini interview with them, and a surprise from the Blackjacks!

The Blackjacks were all informed about the birthday surprise prior to their concert.

It was Park Bom's birthday and the Blackjacks sang her birthday song, she was like so surprise and guess what, I'm singing Park Bom for her birthday, don't play play~!

Park Bom being shy.... how lovely!!! Btw CL's makeup was awesome that day, she used to have heavy eyeliners, but I think she looks perfect that day, with less eyeliners.

Her even surprised look when the emcees brought out the cake after singing her the birthday song.

Next song was a little slow pace, Lonely, my all time favorite!!!!

Their latest song, I Love You, after that.

Dara being cute and lovely like always!!!

And guess what's for the last song?????

Naega jeil cha la ga~~~~!!!!!! (I Am The Best)

The BF declared himself as 2NE1 fans after their concert, getting addicted to this song he made it his ringtone!!!!

How to not addicted to it, try and see.....

Altogether they sang 6 songs, all of which my favorite and I could sing along, so damn touched that I could sing along with them live!!!!!

Please do come back for a real concert....... T_________T

PROUD TO BE A BLACKJACK!!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: All photos are not mine, credit to the the watermark on each pic.

Keywords: 2NE1, Twin Towers Alive 2013, KLCC, TTAlive, Blackjacks

Internship

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:22:00 +0000

I rant a lot whenever it comes to exam if you know me well, it’s like my Facebok and Twitter are all spammed with frustrating status and I could be like a real bitch complaining and moarning whole day at home, LOL!

Always hope for internship to come sooner so that I could leave my notes away for at least 6 months, of course I’d been dying to graduate sooner as well.

Here it comes, I’m on my internship now.

Day 1 of work is rather....... hmm..... what to say, I think I was like a little bit unlucky. I was assigned to a group on my own, where my other coursemate (interns as well) are mostly having partners in their group. So I was like the only intern in my group where others are mostly permanent staff already, I believed.

Then, my manager in charged on me happened to went out for field work, so I was left alone not knowing who to approach. I know it is all on me to take the initiative to approach the seniors and ask to offer my help. But everyone seems so busy and I don’t even know which of them are seniors that could assign me. Impossible to approach any random seniors here and ask how can I help them right.

So I was told to be waiting patiently till my manager get back and tell me what to do. There goes my first day of internship, LOL, I was wondering what to write on my daily report.

Today is Day 2, and I was asssigned while writing this, haha, happy to be assigned, guess it’s the right attitude, LOL! I mean I was to be assigned while writing this, completing my post while waiting for the seniors to prepare the documents of the assigned tasks.

6 months to go, hopefully everything goes well throughout my internship. Finger crossed. =D

Some Yummy Food in Kota Bharu

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:36:00 +0000

Day 11th of Chinese New Year, and I'm no where but being happy staying at home. Seriously, spent Day 1 of CNY in grandma's house, Day 2 visiting elderly, and Day 3 onwards, at home~~!

You know the weather is sometime too hot for a human being to walk outside wtf, feel like burning alive under the scorching sun. Plus I'm too lazy to dress up decently to go out, such a hot weather I don't even feel like putting on my bra, hahahahaha, okay get over it.

But then I did go around the town for some nice food, Kelantan has the best Malay curry I swear no other place can beat it!!! Ya I know most people who live in other states don't really fancy Malay's curry, cause I have a few friends that went "uhhhh" when you mentioned curry rice, LOL...

Try Kelantanese curry and you will know!

Basically I'm having Malay curry rice ALMOST EVERYDAY at home. No joke.

OMG the calories...........................!!!!! (ಥ﹏ಥ)

80% of the curry rice I tried are all super yummy, so I didn't really take photo for each of them lah. But let me share something else that is worth eating in Kota Bharu!

What's more than icy dessert on a hot ~~sunny~~ burning day??

Cendol Pulut Tapai Special - RM3.00

Sorry I forgot to take picture of the ingredients inside, LOL, phailed blogger! But like what its name, it has cendol, pulut, and tapai as the main ingredients, and the rest are the normal ABC ingredients like sagu, biji nipah (atap ji) those.

Normal Cendol Pulut Tapai cost only RM2.00, special one have two more ingredients which are sweet corns and red beans. And oh, not forgetting the Gula Melaka!!!! Super yummy!!!

It is basically a no-named stall on the road side only, but the crowd, non-stop OMG, I bet they earned thousands per month, mum said more than thousands, I thought so, LOL. It is located just next to a Thai restaurant named Kengsom in Kota Bharu town, which the restaurant is just next to Jalan Kebun Sultan's post office.

Another food I tried was the famous Mee Sup in Paya Bemban, Jalan Hospital. It is also a no-named stall on the road side, you can easily locate it by searching for The Ritz Boutique Restaurant. The stall is just right next to it.

That's how the stall looks like, spot the PHD (Pizza Hut Delivery) right opposite the road. This is another super crowded stall OMG please avoid peak hours or else you gonna end up waiting as they have only limited tables.

Kuey Tiaw Sup Ayam Biasa - RM2.50

I ordered Kuey Tiaw, normal noodle and MeeHoon are available as well. They have 2 types of soup, beef and chicken. I tried only the chicken soup, so couldn't comment on the beef soup. The chicken soup is good, real good. But I guess there would be lots of additive in it, for it to be that delicious.

They have special one as well, priced at RM3.50, the BF ordered it, but I can't tell the difference. Maybe there's more ingredients, I guess.

Coconut Water - RM1.00

Request for a non-sugar one, the original coconut water is already sweet enough, just nice for me. The BF ordered normal one, my god, is like drinking sugar water instead. But RM1.00 for sweet coconut water is so much cheap, no?

Speaking of nice food in Kota Bharu reminds me of one super @#$&*% Malay restaurant I swear I won't visit it anymore!!!!

P.S. No offence to Malay readers, and no racist issue here, I'm addressing the rude staff there, no offence to their race.

It is a famous restaurant in Kota Bharu for its Ayam Percik that I have to admit the taste is indeed really good as compared to any other Ayam Percik in town. But for that rude and arrogant staff and services there, I wouldn't mind banning the food forever.

"Someone" visited the restaurant to buy their Ayam Percik, a Malay customer before him bought the exact same food with him, but he was charged extra. When he questioned the staff why should he pay extra when he bought the exact same food as the previous customer, the staff answered him,

"SEBAB YOU ORANG CINA"

WTF??????!!!!!!!!

ಠ_ಠ

Why would the customer's race as a Chinese offense the staff so much that the staff have to bring up the race issue??? I seriously cannot understand!!!!!!!!

Then I went there with the family few days ago, told the staff I want to add on a drink, she answered, "Don't tell me, tell him (another male staff)". FUCK wthell is wrong with their service, can't she just take the order and inform the male staff? FUCK their attitude I won't step in their restaurant anymore!

Won't die for not eating their so-called famous Ayam Percik, such attitude, I don't see how my money are well spent.

They have other branches, recently one in Cyberjaya, I'm not sure is it a franchise or a family business, but sorry, though they might not behave the same, I just don't feel like eating their food anymore.

Like what I mentioned, no intention of racist issue here. So please don't bombard unnecessarily.

Kthxbye.

Keywords: cendol pulut tapai, kota bharu, yummy food, mee sup, jalan hospital, yati, ayam percik

My Nail Colors Collection!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:29:00 +0000

I'm blogging from home in Kelantan, yay~~~!!!

Ahhhh can finally breath now, no more stressful life of staying awake to 'digest' tons of notes, I'm free from my notes for 8 whole months from now, woohoo~~!

Not sure how my intern life gonna be, might be stressed out like shit as well since March to August is like the peak peak periods for audit field, but..... as long as not reading the encyclopedia textbooks and memorizing tons of note, I'm all good!!!!! I guess?

Now, let me show you my nail colors collection as promised, teehee~

Don't be disappointed with my normal brands nail color though, I mean if you're expecting more high end brands like O.P.I or China Glaze those. Main reason is because I'm still asking for money instead of earning my money, LOL, so that's not right.

These are from NATURE REPUBLIC, my favorite brand so far, they are very smooth to apply and the colors are very nice as well. The Peacock Green and Brinjal colors are my current love now. The Olive Green one have yet to try, just bought it for my CNY nail designs, teehee~

Also from Nature Republic, pastel colors I'm so in love with. The pink/nude color is the one I used the most, you can tell by looking at the little leftover there, LOL...

4 of these from THE FACE SHOP....

Thought this color gonna have blue and green shade in it, I was having nail art on my nails that time, so I bought without trying. Was a bit disappointed that it appear to be darker that what I expected, and only under the light the green shade is visible, and no blue shade at all. ◔̯◔

3 of these are my new collection as well, the one on the left I have yet to try as well, bought it for CNY. The one on the right is base coat. Middle one is the LOVE!

Yup, love-shape pieces inside, gonna use this for my CNY nail design as well. ♥‿♥

Obviously these are from SKINFOOD, left one is top coat, love it a lot, very quick dry and not sticky at all.

ELIANTO nail color. The right one is the top coat. And honestly speaking, I like non of them. Elianto has a real nice color range, have always tempted to buy, but to think of their low quality color that get sticky very fast, I never buy any since these 3. Even the top coat is very hard to dry, don't like.

As I said, I don't have high end brand in my nail color collection yet, so these 2 are not the exception, they are actually fake O.P.I instead, haha! Bought these in a night market in Ampang, and they turn out to be so nice! Color is very rich and very smooth to apply, mad love!

Got this from Daiso, have yet to try as well. Will wait until I have appropriate design to put it on.

Temporary stop buying nail colors, LOL, I will really get crazy and buy non-stop once I started. Wait till I put on all those I have and get bored with them first, duh...

Okay, gotta cuddle with my dog, haha!!! Bye~ ❤

Keywords: manicure, nail art, nail design, the face shop, skinfood, nature republic, daiso

My Nail Colors Collection!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:14:00 +0000

I'm back~!

Okay quick update, have 2 papers to sit for tomorrow morning, got no time to procrastinate here. Actually I could just start revising without blogging, bahaha, just some break after the brunch, don't want to get all sleepy and tired revising right after a heavy meal.

I'm fallen too deep with nail art lately OMG I can't stop hunting for nail colors whenever I go! Here are my collections so far...

They are of different brands, I'm not really into any particular brands actually, but I had stop buying cheap nail colors, those 3 for RM10 or 2 for RM5 if you get what I mean. Of course such cheap nail color sometimes have awesome colors, but I don't see the purpose of getting all frustrated having the nail color to turn all sticky after using it for few times.

So far the most I have are from Nature Republic, I love their nail colors a lot! Each of them cost RM5.90, but they always have this sales of "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" which cost only RM11.80 for 3 colors, super great deals!

I know it would be somewhat similar to the cheap 3 for RM10 nail colors I mentioned just now, LOL, but they are of different quality okay!

Spot the nude color at the back, right in fronts of the candy red color, I have used more than half it is still watery and not sticky at all!

Will do a close up shot of each color I have later, maybe after my final exam, got not much time to waste now, duh...

Share some of my DIY nail arts here! I'm still a newbie, not really used to handling the tiny brushes and so on yet, but overall I think ok lah, so let's see...

Blue + Gold leopard prints design. The blue nail color is from Nature Republic, and the gold from Skinfood. Got smudged a little when I apply the top coat, duh...

This one I did it in a salon, LOL, mad love the feather design, and I'd tried to find that green nail color but haven't find any similar till now, sigh. But then I'd learned the trick of getting a two-toned design, ngehehe... So I did my own one after that...

The black color is actually with a glitter green shade in it, but not really visible, got it from The Face Shop. And the green color is from O.P.I, *clear throat* fake one. HAHAHAHA... got it at RM8 only from a night market in Ampang, but I swear it is superb!! Indeed better than other nail color I have, I really mean it. The color is very rich and it is super smooth when you apply on your nails, kinda regret I didn't buy more, LOL...

So that's my short updates. Will get back with a close up shot of the nail colors I have after this.

Till then, see ya!!

Keywords: nail art, medicure, the face shop, nature republic, o.p.i, nail color, nail polish

Kissaten - Setia City Mall

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:24:00 +0000

Woohoo I'm back!!!

Blogging at 2.24am my god, I'm getting more motivated to blog lately, stupid hormone strikes I guess, this blog used to die for months after months like weeks ago!

Final exam in exact one week time, instead of freaking out like a mad I'm actually verbally worried instead of worried in action. Went to Setia City Mall in Shah Alam for the final CNY shopping where everyone is probably hitting their heads on their textbooks now. But no worries, promised myself to get a good result this semester, I shall fulfill it no matter how. So please god, don't make me be lazy tomorrow!!!! Ok lah, that's not god's problem. But please at least 'pinch' me hard if I got lazy, graduating soon, time to get serious and be worried of my CGPA, duh!!!

Going for final shopping means spending extra money actually, especially when it's final exam period, you gonna convince yourself it is meant to RELEASE STRESS wtf. Well, happy woman is rather simple, just spend. No?

p.s. MUMMY if you happen to read this, don't worry, I spent a little only, LOL!

Starved like mad when we reached, raining cats and dogs on the way there and traffic jams some more, sien... So after much hesitation, we decided to go for Kissaten again, hee~!

They have a lot of seats outdoor, not literally outdoor also, it's covered. But we chose to sit inside of course, too humid to sit outside especially after the rain.

The internal deco is kinda nice and comfortable, I was hoping for a soft and comfy cushioned seats but they only have limited one.

So we took this bar seats at last, LOL...

Beverage counter... Hmmm, a normal one, nothing special.

Teriyaki Pork Burger - RM13.90

Ordered Kissaten signature Teriyaki Pork Burger, the first time I tried this was at the branch in IOI Boulevard, it was the BF who ordered it that time, I only shared a few bites. So this time I purposely ordered to taste it all over again, LOL! My friend ordered the same burger and glad that she loves it as well!

But then it was only RM10.90 back then, price strike up eh? ◔̯◔

No need to mention more on the taste, IT WAS SUPER YUMMYLICIOUS!

Look at it! This is so far the best pork burger for me. There's no cheese and chili sauce in it, all it has is the original pork patty sauce and it was already so delicious trust me you don't wanna miss this! ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

Slrrrppp~~~! ♥‿♥

Roasted Chicken Spaghetti - RM19.90

The BF tried their pasta this time. It has a quite strong onion smell I don't really like it. But overall it was still good, especially the roasted chicken bites.

Honey Lemon Soda - RM7.90

Iced Cappucino - RM9.90

I ordered only iced plain water, free of charge, LOL so good!

Homie and I, hee~~!

Will be moving out from Cyberjaya and shift to Setapak again after Chinese New Year, guess we will only meet again in October eh?

No make up, only eye liner. Heeee I hardly put on foundation now, just a little eye liner and I'm good to go!

Went for a quick shopping after dinner. Super excited to see H&M there, and thank god it was not as crowded as the one in Bukit Bintang, my god I went there twice and I seriously lost my mood to shop! But the one in Setia City Mall is just nice, no need to freaking queue for the fitting room, big love! ♥‿♥

The clothes there were all so nice OMG the BF and I really went all crazy and I swear I nearly have the urge to just SPEND WITHOUT GIVING A F!

Thank god I didn't...

Saw a super duper maximum ultra nice furry knitwear, priced at RM99.90, compared with other brands this is like super cheap my god I nearly bought it without doubt! I had seen similar one in other branded shops and they are all around RM200 I swear.

Planned to get an outer wear for my intern, the BF freezed everyday during his intern he keep advice me to get one outer wear for my intern. But to think again, I'm so afraid I gonna end up spending RM99.90 to add another item permanently in my wardrobe. I mean, who know, maybe the company I'm going to the air cond is not that freaking cold to put on a freaking furry outer wear? So I put it back at last..... (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Was so sad.........until I saw this.....

Another furry knitwear at a discounted price of RM39.00!!!!! Bahaha I immediately picked up one and rushed to the fitting room to try on.

Super stretchable and comfy OMG!!!! ♥ Original price was RM79.90, saved RM40.90, weeee~~~ No wait, should be RM60.90, compared to the previous RM99.90 one, LOL!

Ok, no more shopping after this. Gonna lock myself at home all day until my last paper on 6th February. Thank god I could still have enough time to get back to my hometown few days earlier before CNY.

Till then, see ya!

WISH ME LUCK FOR MY EXAMS!!!! Hee~~

keywords: setia city mall, setia alam, kissaten, teriyaki pork burger, h&m

Orchard View Yong Tau Foo - Ampang

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:10:00 +0000

Another food review!!!

Went to dad's homestay in Ampang again today, duh, I went there like zillion times already, haha. So we decided to have Yong Tau Foo again for lunch today, after some hesitatation, we finally decided to try the one beside Foong Foong, just to compare is Foong Foong really the best like how the rest said, LOL...

The one beside it is known as Orchard View Yong Tau Foo.

Such a coincident Foong Foong is closed today, no reason for us not to try Orchard View, LOL...

You can see this super large board recommending other dishes they have instead of only Yong Tau Foo. I especially like Orchard View because of this, like at least the customers know what other side dishes you have.

They also have the menu banner inside the restaurant, displaying choices of food available. And most of all, a real menu presented to your table once you are seated! This is what I prefer A LOT MORE THAN Foong Foong!!! Wthell in Foong Foong you have to go to the counter to place your order, and no menu at all for your reference. Maybe because they only have those few choices of Yong Tau Foo, so they never bother to make one proper menu. ಠ_ಠ

I don't know, but as a customer, of course I prefer to have a proper menu presented on the table, with the waiters to come over and take my order. In this matter, Orchard View win.

Went there at lunch time, plus Foong Foong is closed, not sure whether these lead to full house. ◔̯◔

Ah, one more thing, I think Orchard View's environment is cleaner and cozier than Foong Foong's. Foong Foong is a bit like those old restaurant with little maintenance and upkeep, but weird thing is such old looking restaurant mostly serve best food, duh!!

So we ordered fried dumplings again, to compare the taste of course!

Fried Dumplings - 5 pcs

Fried Fu Zhuk - 5 pcs

Fried Yao Char Kuay - 3 pcs

The look got no different with Foong Foong's, but I think Foong Foong don't have Yao Char Kuay. And most importantly, the taste!

No doubts, what people said is true, Foong Foong's fried dumpling is tastier. Don't get me wrong, Orchard View's dumpling is good, but Foong Foong's better. That's it.

So far both of them contra, 1 point for Ochard View's environment, 1 point for Foong Foong's dumpling.

Soft Tofu with Meat Filling - 3 pcs

Next is the soup! Foong Foong's soup is tasteless wtfreak. Orchard View one is a lot better, maybe in other saying it means more flavoring, I don't know, but if you want tasteless soup you might as well cook it yourself at home right. So another point to Orchard View.

Dumplings Soup - 5 pcs in a bowl

The filling of this dumpling is the same as the fried one, so the comment is the same, it is nice, but Foong Foong's better.

Total damage for this meal is RM28.50 with two white rice (Foong Foong don't have white rice also wtf) and three drinks. I'm not sure whether the price of a single piece of Yong Tau Foo is the same as Foong Foong, which is RM1 per piece. The bf and I heard an auntie mentioned it's only RM0.90 for Ochard View, can't confirm, you can check on your own, LOL...

So overall if you asked me, I would go for Orchard View if I were to go for Yong Tau Foo again. Basically I'm not a Yong Tau Foo lover, as you can see I din't order any veges Yong Tau Foo, so for Yong Tau Foo lover a lot of them prefer Foong Foong.

But for those who doesn't like veges Yong Tau Foo like me, Orchard View should be a better place, since they have other choices like steamed fish, herbal chicken, pork and a lot more. Then you could have a wider variety of food choice apart of plain Yong Tau Foo only, with no white rice somemore wtfreak...

Go try both, and judge on your own!! ｡◕‿‿◕｡

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Ah Heng Food Corner - Jalan Tiong Nam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:34:00 +0000

Final exam in 2 weeks time OMG, I'm all nervous and grumpy having my notes scattered all over the table, soon the floor I believe, duh!

Having a short break from studies to blog now, to prevent brain jammed actually, so this gonna be a real short updates.

Went to dad's place last weekend, he'd been all lonely after mum went back hometown, haha, so I went over to stay overnight on Friday. Reached there around 7pm, dad wanted to watch movie, I was like, "Can, but not Galaxy Ampang please!", LOL wthell, I swear I won't go back there, read this if you wonder why.

So I suggested we go for Raja Laut's famous braised pork and pig intestine soup for dinner before movie. The restaurant is located in Jalan Tiong Nam, along side the Citrus Hotel. So you could just locate Citrus Hotel with your GPS, the restaurant is just next to it.

So we ordered:

Peppered Pig Stomach Soup

Braised Pig's Legs & Five-Flower Pork

(Five-flower Pork is direct translation from what the Chinese called as Wu Hua Rou,

you may Google to look for the exact term of it, LOL)

Stir Fried Flowering Cabbage (Choy Sum)

Braised Eggs

(picture source from http://kampungboycitygal.com)

Braised Pig Intestines

Sorry for the blurry pics, dad was all hungry keep asking "Can eat d or not can eat d or not", LOL.... So I was all in a hurry and keep saying 'Last one last one"... Hence the blur outcome, sigh...

So overall, the dishes were all good, especially the pig stomach soup, love every single bite of the pig stomach!

Total damage for this meal was RM41++, together with beverages.

Then we headed to KLCC for Arnold's new movie - The Last Stand. Planned to go Times Square instead, but they do not have normal hall for this movie, so we ended up going KLCC and parked at the convention centre's basement parking. Super far wtf, it was raining somemore when we finished our movie and walked back to get out car, sien~

That's all for now, review of the movie in next post!!

Ah Heng Food Corner

Jalan Tiong Nam, 50350 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 03-9569393

Opens from 5pm till late

Rating:
Ambience - 3/5
Service - 3/5
Pricing - 4/5
Food - 4/5

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